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Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 15, 2005, 14:30 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 12/15/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > $ git pull . ref1 HEAD (notice the space!)
>>
>> If you were too used to git merge, you would have wrote
>> HEAD before ref1, so that does not sound plausible ;-).
>
> no, that I have remembered. What I constantly forget is the
> space-vs-colon difference.

That statement sounds as if "git pull . ref1:HEAD" makes some sense and you typed it without colon by mistake. But it does not make any sense to me; I am puzzled ... what are you trying to achieve with "git pull . ref1:HEAD"?

The patch from Johannes feels right but I haven't had caffeine yet, so..

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  1. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  3. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  5. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  7. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 15, 2005
  9. Alex RiesenDec 15, 2005

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