Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What I especially like about Mercurial here is that pushing from A is > perfectly symetrical to pulling from B. > > With git, cloning sets things up to fetch into a tracking branch, > but then the push is not symetric to the fetch. That makes sense if > you're cloning from a bare repo, but I think leads to confusion for > new users when they clone a non-bare repo they wish to later push > into. I dunno, I guess we'll see if the new message helps any. Push _is_ symmetric to fetch; it is not symmetric to pull, and it cannot be. BTW. Mercurial's pull is equivalent to Git's fetch. That is of course provided that you have the same refspec(s) for push and for fetch. And up to the point: push needs to be via authenticated channel, for obvious reasons. The fact that default setup is not symmetric reflect the fact that in most cases the situation is not symmetric: you fetch from other remote repository into separate remotes layout, you push into your own public bare publishing repository set up in mirroring mode. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
