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From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent•com>
To: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib•de>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] push: teach push to be quiet if local ref is strict subset of remote ref
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:11:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D2EDD64-CD98-4747-8579-25DF7FC9DAAC@wincent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A862668C-7895-489A-B13B-597084CAEE11@zib.de>

El 2/11/2007, a las 13:48, Steffen Prohaska escribió:

> On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, it's too late too change now, but it would be nice if the
>>> mirror of "fetch" were "send". (I know it's been commented in the  
>>> past
>>> that the fact that "push" and "pull" aren't mirror operations has
>>> surprised quite a few people.)
>>
>> Could you please just do
>>
>> 	git config --global alias.send push
>>
>> and be done with it?

(snip)

> The comment was about how to avoid surprises for people that
> are new to git, not how to let long-time users have an alias
> for push.

Exactly. I was talking about the *initial* surprise for new users, not  
for people who already know the difference between push, pull and  
fetch (99% of people reading this list already, myself included).

> The _only_ real solution I see right now, is to stop the
> discussion and leave "git push" as is. I strongly believe that
> the git community in its majority will refuse to rename push;
> though I have no evidence for this.

As I said above, "Of course, it's too late to change now"... I don't  
think it will be renamed either.

Cheers,
Wincent

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-28 17:46 [PATCH 0/10 v3] improve refspec handling in push Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46 ` [PATCH 01/10] push: change push to fail if short refname does not exist Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46   ` [PATCH 02/10] push: teach push new flag --create Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46     ` [PATCH 03/10] push: support pushing HEAD to real branch name Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46       ` [PATCH 04/10] push: add "git push HEAD" shorthand for 'push current branch to default repo' Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46         ` [PATCH 05/10] rename ref_matches_abbrev() to ref_abbrev_matches_full_with_fetch_rules() Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46           ` [PATCH 06/10] add ref_abbrev_matches_full_with_rev_parse_rules() comparing abbrev with full ref name Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46             ` [PATCH 07/10] push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46               ` [PATCH 08/10] push: teach push to accept --verbose option Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46                 ` [PATCH 09/10] push: teach push to pass --verbose option to transport layer Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-28 17:46                   ` [PATCH 10/10] push: teach push to be quiet if local ref is strict subset of remote ref Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-30  8:29                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30 10:15                       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-30 10:26                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-30 10:53                           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-30 19:19                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-31  7:53                           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-31  8:45                             ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]                               ` <B3C76DB8-076D-4C43-AC28-99119A05325C@z ib.de>
2007-10-31  9:14                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-31 10:50                               ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-31 18:51                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-31 21:09                                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-31 21:31                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  7:03                                       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-01  9:11                                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-01 16:43                                           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-01 20:18                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-02  7:21                                               ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-02  7:52                                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-02 10:03                                                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-02 10:44                                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-02 11:40                                                       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-02 10:03                                             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-02 13:24                                               ` Tom Prince
2007-11-02 13:52                                                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-02 14:49                                                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-02 19:42                                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-02 20:19                                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  8:18                                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-01  8:36                                         ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-01  9:29                                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-02  8:18                                       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-02 12:14                                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-02 12:48                                           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-02 13:11                                             ` Wincent Colaiuta [this message]
2007-10-30 18:00                       ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-10-30  8:28               ` [PATCH 07/10] push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30  8:49                 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-30  8:28         ` [PATCH 04/10] push: add "git push HEAD" shorthand for 'push current branch to default repo' Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30  8:28       ` [PATCH 03/10] push: support pushing HEAD to real branch name Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30  8:29   ` [PATCH 01/10] push: change push to fail if short refname does not exist Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30  8:56     ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-30  9:22       ` Junio C Hamano

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