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From: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns•ca>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail•com>,
	"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:09:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40d2ea0e-07d0-4341-9962-8b2896640469@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsegne69i.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, at 5:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns•ca> writes:
>
>> I'm not comfortable with calling this a "triangular workflow" since
>
> But it has been for a long time known as a "triangular workflow"
> already, so it is not like you are in your documentation update
> inventing the terminology.  You do not have to feel unconfortable.

I'm not sure what you mean by that: according to `git grep` the term
"triangular" is used only once in the Git documentation, somewhere
in the middle of the `gitrevisions` man page. There are also a couple
of mentions in the release notes.

It seems like the term "triangular workflow" has been used quite a bit on
this mailing list but it's important to differentiate between terms that are
commonly used internally in the Git developer community and terms
which are actually used in the Git documentation and understood by
users.

> And this "each developer may internally use many branches, but at
> the public meeting points they share small number of branches (or
> just one) that integrate their work" is the most basic form of
> triangular workflow.
>
> If you want to exclude all the advanced forms, without specifically
> singling out the triangular workflow, you can say "if you are not
> using the centralized workflow, and pushing to somewhere other than
> where you are fetching from, then do this..." and it would work
> fine, I guess.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-15 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-26 20:40 [PATCH 0/4] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section & refspec definition Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-08-26 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] doc: git-push: update intro Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-08-28 13:53   ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-08-28 16:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-29  7:20       ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-08-28 17:47     ` Julia Evans
2025-08-28 19:39       ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-08-26 20:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] doc: git-push: clarify "where to push" Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-08-27  0:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-26 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] doc: git-push: clarify "what " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-08-26 23:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-27 13:52     ` Julia Evans
2025-08-28 14:25   ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-08-26 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] doc: git-push: rewrite refspec specification Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-08-26 23:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-27 13:10     ` Julia Evans
2025-08-28 19:28   ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-09-12 18:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section & refspec definition Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-12 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] doc: git-push: clarify intro Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-12 20:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-15 20:00       ` Julia Evans
2025-09-16  1:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-16 18:46           ` Julia Evans
2025-09-16 20:38             ` Ben Knoble
2025-09-16 21:59               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-17 18:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-18 14:20             ` Julia Evans
2025-09-12 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-12 21:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-15 20:19       ` Julia Evans
2025-09-15 21:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-15 23:09           ` Julia Evans [this message]
2025-09-16  5:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-16  5:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-16  5:39         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-18 21:02           ` Julia Evans
2025-09-12 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] doc: git-push: clarify "where to push" Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-12 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-12 21:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-15 20:52       ` Julia Evans
2025-09-12 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] doc: git-push: clarify "what " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-23 17:44   ` [PATCH v3 0/4] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-23 17:44     ` [PATCH v3 1/4] doc: git-push: clarify intro Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-23 17:44     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-24 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-30 19:20         ` Julia Evans
2025-09-23 17:44     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] doc: git-push: clarify "where to push" Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-23 17:44     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] doc: git-push: clarify "what " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-24 20:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-25 20:50         ` Julia Evans
2025-09-25 21:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-25 22:34             ` Julia Evans
2025-09-26  1:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-26 15:29                 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-26 17:31                   ` Julia Evans
2025-09-26 19:03                     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-26 22:27                       ` Julia Evans
2025-09-26 23:07                         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-28 21:38                           ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-09-23 17:56     ` [PATCH v3 0/4] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section D. Ben Knoble
2025-09-30 19:58     ` [PATCH v4 0/5] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-30 19:58       ` [PATCH v4 1/5] doc: git-push: clarify intro Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-30 19:58       ` [PATCH v4 2/5] doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-30 23:39         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-03 18:23           ` Julia Evans
2025-10-03 19:12             ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 17:30         ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2025-10-03 17:54           ` Julia Evans
2025-09-30 19:58       ` [PATCH v4 3/5] doc: git-push: clarify "where to push" Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-30 19:58       ` [PATCH v4 4/5] doc: git-push: clarify "what " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-09-30 21:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 17:36         ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2025-09-30 19:58       ` [PATCH v4 5/5] doc: git-push: Add explanation of `git push origin main` Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-01 22:29         ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-10-03 17:58           ` Julia Evans
2025-10-01 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 0/5] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section D. Ben Knoble
2025-10-06 18:58       ` [PATCH v5 " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-06 18:58         ` [PATCH v5 1/5] doc: git-push: clarify intro Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-06 18:58         ` [PATCH v5 2/5] doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-07 12:23           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-07 13:35             ` Julia Evans
2025-10-07 18:35               ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-10-06 18:58         ` [PATCH v5 3/5] doc: git-push: clarify "where to push" Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-06 18:58         ` [PATCH v5 4/5] doc: git-push: clarify "what " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-06 18:58         ` [PATCH v5 5/5] doc: git-push: Add explanation of `git push origin main` Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2025-10-06 21:53         ` [PATCH v5 0/5] doc: git-push: clarify DESCRIPTION section D. Ben Knoble
2025-10-06 22:07         ` Junio C Hamano

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