From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:23:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Question on GIT usage.
Message-ID: <7v7jbtb4gz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510311540300.27915@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I _think_ you should be able to just do
>
> 	git pull <repodir> <branchname>
>
> where <repodir> can even be just "." for the very same repository.
>
> I've not tested it, but dammit, it should work. If it doesn't, it's a bug.

I know it works.  'git pull . somebranch' is the command I use
the second most often in the git suite (the first being
git-show-branch).