{"thread":{"id":"5936","subject":"git-pull question","startedAt":"2006-10-16T01:00:36Z","lastAt":"2006-10-16T09:11:13Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Joakim Tjernlund","Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"28825","messageId":"012c01c6f0be$7d329fc0$1267a8c0@Jocke","threadId":"5936","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-pull question","fromName":"Joakim Tjernlund","fromEmail":"joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se","sentAt":"2006-10-16T01:00:36Z","receivedAt":"2006-10-16T01:00:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se","avatar":null},"body":"Why isn't\n  git checkout -b myb otherb\n  git pull . thirdb\n\nthe same as\n  git checkout -b myb otherb\n  git pull . thirdb:myb\n\n Jocke\n"},{"id":"28838","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.63.0610161109300.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de","threadId":"5936","inReplyTo":"012c01c6f0be$7d329fc0$1267a8c0@Jocke","subject":"Re: git-pull question","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2006-10-16T09:11:13Z","receivedAt":"2006-10-16T09:11:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:\n\n> Why isn't\n>   git checkout -b myb otherb\n>   git pull . thirdb\n> \n> the same as\n>   git checkout -b myb otherb\n>   git pull . thirdb:myb\n\nYou have to understand that \"thirdb:myb\" means \"fetch the branch thirdb \nand _store_ it as myb (if it fast forwards)\".\n\nSo, it makes no sense at all to use the \"remote:local\" syntax with pull.\n\nHth,\nDscho\n"}]}