From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:44:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: refuse to fetch into the current branch in a non-bare repository
Message-ID: <7vprm6iz6z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810111336350.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Some confusing tutorials suggest that it would be a good idea to call
> something like this:
>
> 	git pull origin master:master
>
> While it might make sense to store what you want to merge, it typically
> is plain wrong.

I am somewhat confused.

This "confusion" has been there for very long time and (at least the
scripted version of) git-pull/git-fetch pair has supported a workaround in
the form of --update-head-ok option.

Have we broken the workaround ll.127..147 in git-pull.sh recently, or are
you trying to address something else?