On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:53:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Some branches are expected to rewind, so the prominent > > warning would be annoying. However, git doesn't know what > > the expectation is for a particular branch. We can have it > > guess by peeking at the lost couple of reflog entries. If we > > s/lost/last/ Oops, thanks. > This is slightly offtopic, but I have been wondering if this approach do > the right thing for "git pull". Wouldn't the underlying "git fetch" give a > warning, and then the calling "git pull" go ahead and make a merge, > scrolling the warning away with the merge/update summary diffstat? That > would be a larger change if "git pull" needs to stash away the warning > message, do its thing and then spit out the warning later. I think this particular warning has nothing to do with git-pull. But rather, that we should _always_ abort a pull with a forced-update. Because the only sane things to do there are: 1. Stop and look around, and see if you should be doing a "git reset" first. or 2. "git pull --rebase" But proceeding with the pull just seems like a disaster. So it is not about "this usually fast forwards, but isn't now, so let's make the warning bigger". It is more about noticing that it is a forced-update at all. Maybe that's what you meant by "off-topic". :) > > +static int forced_update_is_uncommon(const char *ref) > > +{ > > + struct update_counts uc; > > + memset(&uc, 0, sizeof(&uc)); > > + if (for_each_recent_reflog_ent(ref, count_updates, 4096, &uc) < 0) > > + for_each_reflog_ent(ref, count_updates, &uc); > > + return uc.fastforward && uc.forced <= 1; /* 1 for the one we just did */ > > +} > > Looks sensible. Now we just need to paint the shed. :) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html