pull should always --remember

Martin Pool mbp at ozlabs.org
Tue Jan 17 23:58:49 GMT 2006


On 18/01/2006, at 9:09 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> Originally, we made 'bzr pull' keep the previous parent unless
> '--remember' is supplied.
> Now that we are changing bzr pull so that it defaults to a form of
> --overwrite, I would like to see the default switch back to
> '--remember'. Either that, or --overwrite automatically supplies -- 
> remember.
>
> Basically, the reason we got rid of it, was because you might pull a
> branch just to get their changes. But since we are changing  
> convergence,
> I think only merge will really be used in that situation.

That makes sense to me.  So it will be essentially a "this is a  
mirror of X" setting.

Last I looked there was no obvious way to find out where it will pull  
from or whether a default location.  It'd be nice to show that in say  
"pull --show" and bzr info.

-- 
Martin





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