[plt-dev] Re: [plt] Push #20178: master branch updated

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon May 10 20:14:26 EDT 2010

On May 10, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I have never typed 'git merge'. I do 'git pull'.

Right, this is all described there.

> You're asking me to type two commands (git fetch, git merge)?

You can do it with a single `git pull --rebase' (also mentioned).


> So that there are three less lines in a message that you've already
> shown you can identify and potentially remove always?

The lines in the message are not the issue -- the issue is having more
commits there, which in general makes the history more verbose and
complicated than it needs to be.

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