From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 01:53:30 GMT Subject: Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ? Message-ID: <7v3b1lvfc5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <46563D55.3070607@xs4all.nl> Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > 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?