On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > I have never had a need for a fetch that doesn't update the remote > namespace, nor heard anyone on IRC who has. OTOH, I do have anecdotal > evidence in support of "the current state is confusing": this thread, or > the fact that Jan's IRC bot grew bot-quotes !fetch4/!pull4 that people > use to warn users of 'git pull origin master' (it's apparently very > common). > > The 1.8.0 thread is here, and Peff even said he had a patch he uses in > his tree: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165720/focus=165758 > > There's even a newer thread suggesting the same: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192252 Yeah, I have been running with that patch for ages, and it has never been a problem for me. Of course, the problem cases are very specific workflows that I do not happen to use. There are definitely regressions for some workflows; the question is whether or not anybody is using those workflows (and/or would be bothered to adapt to using the reflog instead). Also note that there are several test failures with the patch, but I haven't investigated them (i.e., I don't know if the patch is buggy, if it is breaking a test in a way that is different than the expected regression, or if the test simply happens to depend on the current behavior and should be fixed). -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