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Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 25, 2007, 01:53 UTC
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
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> Yes, that works, thanks. Wouldn't it be more consistent with this
> reasoning to disallow 
>
>   git pull . LOCAL-BRANCH 
>
> too?
I do not think so.
If somebody else (or yourself) did:
	$ git pull $dir LOCAL-BRANCH

(replace $dir with the `pwd` you would get in your repository), that would work. Why shouldn't it work for yourself?

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