On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:10:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I do not think it is wrong to have a separate mechanism (and it > might end up being called as "mergelocal" which you said might > be a terrible name) for that. I just think it is probably a > wrong thing to do to use branch.*.merge for that. As you said, > operations you are interested in like format-patch (and perhaps > rebase) of a local branch relative to another locally available > ref (be it another branch or a tracking branch) do not involve > fetching (hence pulling) necessarily. Good, it looks like we are mostly agreeing on this then (the feature might have some use, but it should _not_ be tacked onto branch.*.merge). I will give it some thought until v1.5.0 has settled, and then hopefully submit some patches. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Feb 04 13:42:27 2007
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