From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:52:16 GMT Subject: Re: GIT PULL] ext4 updates for 3.5 Message-ID: <7vhauu21rz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> One other thought.  One of the reasons why I used "dev" and not >> "ext4_for_linus" in my git request-pull command line was because that >> several months ago I had created a branch called ext4_for_linus, and I >> hadn't gotten around to deleting it, so I figured I'd just use "dev" >> instead, since it was non-ambiguous. > > You can always just use "tags/xyzzy" to disambiguate.. Not only that, the "look at the ls-remote output and guess what you are teeling the recipient to pull" code gives tags/ext4_for_linus even if there is not ext4-for-linus branch; if I recall correctly we did this on purpose so that older git that did not DWIM "git pull ext4_for_linus" to look at targs/ext4_for_linus.