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git: 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 (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.

posted on 2015-03-03 19:00 UTC in Code | 0 comments | permalink