On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 17:16 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > To me, it's more along the lines of "let git help me not make the > mistake of hacking on a six-week old codebase when I've explicitly asked > it to merge these and those remote tracking branches into these and > those local branches". Not updating those branches when there *are* > changes on them is something users can understand and will probably also > appreciate, but the reason for not allowing even fast-forwards escape me. I'd love this behavior, FWIW. The "branches should not track their origin by default" seems suited only to Linux kernel maintainers who frequently pull from many different people, not to "random hacker who wants to keep track of a project he doesn't maintain" :) Federico - 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
