On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 14:13:47 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >> >> However, I still have a few open issues with the other branch of this >> discussion, i.e., why can we not have an update operation that >> respects branches in the first place, as 'git pull' seems to do, when >> run from the master branch? > >Actually, git does that all correctly for other branches too, but only in >git-1.5. > >... >So it might be worth while trying out git-1.5.0-rc4, and seeing if that >solves some of the UI issues for you guys. It changes things like where >the default remote branches are, and makes the distinction between "my >local copy of branch X" and "the remote branch X" much clearer, which has >clearly been a UI problem. Ok, very reasonable. I've been our corporate guinea pig, so I'll give this a whirl. One thing I'm very, very happy about in git is the ability to quickly experiment. Believe it or not, I have solved actual git problems in our company by doing just that. Of necessity, it's largely my complaints and problems that are aired here, though. Bill - 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