Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:56:58 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> If you read "Integrate them with your changes" and understand that it is
>>> talking about "git pull" or "git pull --rebase", then you do not have to
>>> read the doc.  It should "click".
>>
>> But what's the point is being so vague, while you could just add "(see
>> git pull)"? See what you've just wrote: one should "understand that it
>> is about ...". So, why write Y thinking that the user should
>> understand that it is about X while you could write X directly?
>
> In order to cover both "pull" and "pull --rebase"?

"git pull" also covers both. "pull" is the command, "--rebase" is an
option of it.

-- 
Matthieu