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Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 8:46 am

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

error: The branch 'next' is not a strict subset of your current HEAD.
If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D next'.

So you want me to tell all the developers they should use "git branch
-D maint" instead, so they can bypass the built-in security checks? No
thanks.


With a git alias? No. There aren't even any switches in git to make it do
what I want. With a shell alias? Sure, it's doable, but cumbersome. With a
shell-script I can get it done, but it's ugly, inefficient and has to parse
everything twice. It's also a time-sink, and time is something I don't have
very much of right now.


They're the ones that requested I hack it into git, but the result would
remain the same, ofcourse.


I'm not. We're currently discussing the pros and the cons, and I'm spending
my free 20 minutes every night working on a patch-series to make git-pull
a built-in and then implementing the switch/config-option/whatever that
makes it do what I want it to do. Apart from Junio, that's how everyone
that wants a feature implemented has to do it, so I'd hardly call that
insisting. If Junio decides the patch does something evil, I'll have to
settle for cherry-picking it into whatever branch I want to build from.

On a side note; I'd *love* for it to have a rebase option as well. Perhaps
I'll do that next. In the mean-time, I'd settle for just updating locally
modifiable copies of tracking branches that I've already configured git to
merge with a tracking branch when it happens to be a fast-forward.

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Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Oct 8, 4:55 pm)
Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Jakub Narebski, (Fri Oct 12, 6:08 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Shawn O. Pearce, (Fri Oct 12, 11:04 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Oct 12, 8:46 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Federico Mena Quintero, (Fri Oct 19, 4:57 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Andreas Ericsson, (Sat Oct 20, 4:03 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Steffen Prohaska, (Sat Oct 20, 6:19 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, J. Bruce Fields, (Sun Oct 21, 6:12 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Jakub Narebski, (Sat Oct 20, 7:06 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Oct 20, 7:33 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Andreas Ericsson, (Sun Oct 21, 3:17 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun Oct 21, 6:15 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Steven Grimm, (Mon Oct 22, 6:53 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Andreas Ericsson, (Mon Oct 22, 3:59 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Federico Mena Quintero, (Mon Oct 22, 10:53 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Oct 22, 7:27 pm)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Jakub Narebski, (Mon Oct 22, 8:26 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Andreas Ericsson, (Mon Oct 22, 10:29 am)
Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Oct 22, 9:45 am)
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Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Mon Oct 22, 11:24 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, (Mon Oct 22, 9:36 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Oct 22, 9:38 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Oct 22, 9:48 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Andreas Ericsson, (Mon Oct 22, 10:31 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Oct 23, 6:58 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Thu Oct 25, 12:16 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 6:07 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 24, 6:17 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 6:12 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 7:39 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Oct 25, 8:46 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 24, 6:14 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Thu Oct 25, 12:06 pm)
[PATCH] Make rebase smarter, Steven Walter, (Fri Oct 26, 12:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make rebase smarter, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Oct 26, 5:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make rebase smarter, Andreas Ericsson, (Fri Oct 26, 3:42 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Thu Oct 25, 2:06 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Oct 24, 7:28 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 6:17 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Oct 25, 10:58 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Thu Oct 25, 2:02 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 8:58 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Oct 25, 6:27 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Oct 22, 11:00 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Andreas Ericsson, (Mon Oct 22, 11:16 am)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Federico Mena Quintero, (Mon Oct 22, 3:36 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Oct 22, 7:21 pm)
Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfin..., Steffen Prohaska, (Mon Oct 22, 11:42 am)
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Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun Oct 14, 6:08 pm)
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