From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:22:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pull: refuse complete src:dst fetchspec arguments
Message-ID: <7vbpjxa8ma.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091024004917.GA8012@sigio.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah, I think you are right. It _should_ be variable, but right now it
> varies on something totally unrelated to what you want (how you invoked,
> and not what type of repo setup you are using). So I agree a patch to
> make it more consistent across fetch+merge versus pull would be good,
> and then we can make a configuration option to choose one or the other.

I have been looong wondering why I somehow thught that I saw a patch that makes

    $ git merge origin/topic

pretend as if you did

    $ git pull origin topic

when you have this mapping

    [remote "origin"]
        fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

in your configuration file, since it is a very obvious thing to do...