From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:48:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --remote option to git-clone.
Message-ID: <20070205184814.GD15775@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz3smqpp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 	git clone git://.../git.git#html
> >
> > to mean "just fetch the branch html, and check it out".
>
> Except that I do not particularly think the URL fragment
> notation is such a "cool" syntax.

OK, but I think it would be very good I think to have *some* URL-like syntax for
git-fetch etc - people are used to copying URLs out of mail (lots of MUAs even
highlight these nicely) so I often see that current syntax <URL> <branch> confuses
people: they seem to lose the branch and fetch/pull the wrong one.


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MST