On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Personally, I think that the fact that Git forces the user to think >> about it in terms of "oh I have to fetch" instead of that happening >> automatically, it helps teach the model to the user. If it happened in >> the background then the user might not be confronted with the >> distributed nature of the tool. > > I agree. But I think there is some room for improvement. Do we know > when the last fetch of the relevant upstream is? If we do, and if it's > been "a while" (configurable), then we should make a note suggesting > fetching again in git-status. > > This is not exactly my own idea. Gentoo's portage (i.e. friends with > apt-get, yum... if you're not familiar) also has this explicit "fetch" > operation, which is called sync. If you haven't sync'd in a while and > try to install new package, you get a friendly message (that helps me > a couple times). > -- > Duy
That seems reasonable. Thanks, Jake
