Re: [PATCH 1/2] tutorial: Use "git remote add"

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 12, 2007, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmz4ot7x5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87sleg31av.fsf@gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:

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> @@ -285,10 +285,12 @@ at /home/bob/myrepo.  She does this with:
>  
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  $ cd /home/alice/project
> -$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master
> +$ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
> +$ git pull bob master
>  ------------------------------------------------

I'd prefer to leave this as is, because I think ad-hoc promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better, and add a new step after that to teach "remote add", telling the user that "having to use longhand every time is tiresome, so there is a nifty way to define a shorthand for a remote repository you interact with often".

Other than that, I agree with the direction of your change to use separate remote layout instead of mixed "incoming" branches.