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Re: [RFC] pull/fetch rename

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Oct 21, 2009, 17:19 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:22:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> For example, I am in favor of deprecating the "pull $there $src:$dst"
> notation.  Before we standardized on the separate remote layout, it was
> sometimes handy to be able to use $dst that is a local branch, but these
> days, especially when repository $there has remote.$there.fetch mapping
> configured so that we can compute from $src what remote tracking branch we
> should store the fetched commit, the flexibility is more confusing than it
> is useful.

I emphatically agree. I was always uncomfortable with the refspec syntax, because it is too flexible. Why would I ever want to access branch refs other than refs/heads/ on the remote, and why would I ever want to write directly to the local refs/heads/ namespace (in a non-bare repo), as opposed to refs/remotes/<name>? Unless he wants to do something unusual, the user should not be confronted with questions like that.

Clemens
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Message 16 of 32 in “[RFC] pull/fetch rename”
  1. Thomas RastOct 20, 2009
  2. Wesley J. LandakerOct 20, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  4. Thomas RastOct 20, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  6. Wesley J. LandakerOct 21, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2009
  8. Nanako ShiraishiOct 20, 2009
  9. Thomas RastOct 20, 2009
  10. Daniel BarkalowOct 20, 2009
  11. Björn SteinbrinkOct 21, 2009
  12. Daniel BarkalowOct 21, 2009
  13. Björn SteinbrinkOct 21, 2009
  14. Daniel BarkalowOct 21, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  16. Clemens BuchacherOct 21, 2009
  17. modernize fetch/merge/pull examplesClemens Buchacher, Oct 21, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  19. git-merge: forbid fast-forward and up-to-date when --no-commit is givenJunio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  20. Nanako ShiraishiOct 22, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2009
  22. git-merge: imply --no-ff when --no-commit is givenJunio C Hamano, Oct 21, 2009
  23. Clemens BuchacherOct 22, 2009
  24. Thomas RastOct 22, 2009
  25. Thomas RastOct 22, 2009
  26. Mike HommeyOct 21, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  28. Mike HommeyOct 21, 2009
  29. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2009
  30. Jeff KingOct 21, 2009
  31. Jeff KingOct 21, 2009
  32. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2009

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