From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ?
Message-ID: <46588EEC.4080101@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsyxsit8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano escreveu:
> And the reason it is "insane" is the same as why we currently do
> not interpret "git pull $repo origin/master" as a request to
> pull from remotes/origin/master.  It really is none of your
> business what kind of remote branches the other end is
> interacting with.

fair enough; my remaining gripe is that the error message is broken.
My suggestion is to have  

  git fetch . XXX

(and by extension: pull) print something like

  Will not fetch from self. 
  Do you mean "git merge XXX" or "git update-ref XXX" ? 

It may be an artificial restriction when compared to "git pull $dir XXX" 
but I think it helps the user better than "Fetch failure".

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