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Re: should git push . from:to work?

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MTMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
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Feb 1, 2007, 15:05 UTC
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> Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > Should I not be able to use . as a URL?
> > git push seems to think . is a remote, not a URL:
> 
> You seem to be infected by the less-than-intuitive
> "git pull ."-makes-perfect-sense camp.
Not really, I don't really care.
> Why not just do "git branch to from"?

Because I want to update am existing local branch that is different from what I have checked out.

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