Weird failure of a merge to local branch

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 12/10/2010 09:38:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> You're wrong to agree.  The docstring is in fact correct.  It's your
> understanding that's wrong.  A pull will fail if it's not a fast-
> forward.  Ditto push.  They really are intended to maintain mirrors,
> only mirrors, and nothing other than mirrors.  I append an example.

I sit corrected then; that behavior *is* different from the other DVCSs  
that I have used.

But then why not just call the operation "mirror", if that is what is  
for?

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Mark A. Flacy