Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> I never understood why people want to complicate things by being able to
> name default _keys_ differently. Why not letting "origin" being the
> default being pulled from, and be done with it?
That happens to match my personal feeling.
HOWEVER.
We treat 'origin' in a special way when you do this:
$ git clone somewhere new.git
$ cd new.git
$ git checkout HEAD^0
$ git pull
And we already have "clone -o" and claim to support that option.
I think that it is very reasonable from the consistency point of
view to make sure that the following sequence treats 'frotz' the
same special way the above treats 'origin' specially:
$ git clone -o frotz somewhere new.git
$ cd new.git
$ git checkout HEAD^0
$ git pull
A purist alternative is to deprecate "git clone -o" and
eventually remove it.
Note that I was agreeing only with this specific aspect of the
argument. I am not at all interested in getting involved in
refining or re-defining the existing submodule semantics this
late in the cycle before 1.5.4. But I can very well see that
fixing this specific inconsistency can be separated out from the
rest of Mark's series and viewed as a set of trivially correct
fixes.
> Besides, I _really_ do not understand why we have such a
> discussion in rc phase. There are _many_ more interesting
> discussions now that _also_ do not belong into a freeze phase.
Currently the ones I looked at and consider possible 1.5.4
material are http-push fixes from Grégoire Barbier and
parse_commit_buffer() tightening from Martin Koegler.
Recently I looked at the following patches and topics but I do
not think any of them belongs to 1.5.4. None of them is obvious
and trivially correct fix to regressions or serious existing
bugs:
* compress/decompress abstraction (Marco)
* crlf (Steffen Prohaska and Dmitry Potapov)
* whitespace error: "cr at eol is ok" (me)
* various conflicting submodule changes(Ping Yin, Mark
Levedahl, Imran M Yousuf)
* unconfigured ident safety (Stephen Sinclair)
* gitweb feed from commit to commitdiff (Florian La Rouche --
Jakub seems to be on top of this so I am not worried about it
too much).
* color.ui (Matthias Kestenholz)
* test scripts to use valgrind (Jeff King, but there was another
one in the past -- can their efforts compared and coordinated
better?).
* various lstat(2) reduction changes (me).
* pathname safety on insane filesystems (Linus, Robin
Rosenberg, me).
(yes, some of the above list do not even have any code).
I am hoping that authors will resend the ones they really care
about after 1.5.4, as I do not want to take patches early.
Thanks.
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