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New entries | Codegit: Dangerous default settings in Eclipse
When Eclipse imports a GIT repository, it sets some defaults that I can only describe as outright dangerous:
This setting means that each pull operation will fetch changes for all remote branches and merge them. This is totally unintuitive: it modifies stuff outside of the currently check-out branch. And it is the oposite of the command line git behaviour: you need explicitly specify if you wanted to fetch different branches (
If you happen to work with many work directories (one for each branch) that are based on the same git repository (git-new-workdir), that one click can get you into a lot of trouble if you are not ready to pull everywhere.
This setting means that each pull operation will fetch changes for all remote branches and merge them. This is totally unintuitive: it modifies stuff outside of the currently check-out branch. And it is the oposite of the command line git behaviour: you need explicitly specify if you wanted to fetch different branches (
git fetch origin somebranch:somebranch)If you happen to work with many work directories (one for each branch) that are based on the same git repository (git-new-workdir), that one click can get you into a lot of trouble if you are not ready to pull everywhere.
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