Is there any way to disable git pull?
I'd like to either make it not work or not do anything, so that, when typing it by mistake, it won't cause me problems.
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What do you mean to type instead? Are you sure you're not just going to mistakenly type whatever the new command to pull is? – user2357112 Apr 08 '14 at 17:30
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Is your operating system Linux? – Bartlomiej Lewandowski Apr 08 '14 at 17:30
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@BartlomiejLewandowski Mac OS X, though I'd prefer a solution that relies solely on git capabilities. – Daniel C. Sobral Apr 08 '14 at 17:32
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@user2357112 `git fetch`, which does not do the same thing as `git pull`. – Daniel C. Sobral Apr 08 '14 at 17:33
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you know git pull is git fetch + git merge, right? – Bartlomiej Lewandowski Apr 08 '14 at 17:34
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Also Git asks for password(if you've not cached it)... so just typing command will do nothing .... – Nemesis Apr 08 '14 at 17:38
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@BartlomiejLewandowski Yes, so? – Daniel C. Sobral Apr 08 '14 at 17:41
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@Nemesis `credentials.helper = cache` kind of defeats that, sadly. – Daniel C. Sobral Apr 08 '14 at 17:41
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@DanielC.Sobral so you just want to avoid accidentally running `git pull`, is that correct? – Apr 08 '14 at 17:53
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@Cupcake Yes. Wasn't that clear in the question? – Daniel C. Sobral Apr 08 '14 at 18:40
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Since you are on OSX, you can write a function to check if you typed git pull.
If so, it will print a message, otherwise it will call git with the parameters.
Example:
git() { if [[ $@ == "pull" ]]; then command echo "Cannot pull!"; else command git "$@"; fi; }
Bartlomiej Lewandowski
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Another way, if you've got root permissions, would be to:
$ sudo chmod 000 /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull
… or wherever the file is in your FS. Then:
$ git pull
fatal: cannot exec 'git-pull': Permission denied
$
Alternatively, you could replace it with something along the lines of
#!/bin/sh
echo "git-pull is disabled"
exit 1
Michal Rus
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I guess the problems you refer to are merge conflicts that may happen if your local branch diverged from the remote. In that case, try setting pull.ff option in git config, like that:
[pull]
ff = only
This will tell git to only do fast-forward merges, which are guaranteed to not result in conflicts.
Jan Warchoł
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It is not directly possible in git, because git aliases are not allowed to override built-in commands.
However, you can create a bash function and alias that proxies your git command and modifies it. Steve Bennett gives a great example in this answer.
