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Re: [PATCH] clone: don't say <branch> when we mean <remote>

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 21, 2011, 19:25 UTC
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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> Looking through blame, the second line survived a typo fix and was
> introduced in 2008 when clone was made a builtin. The script used to
> say <name>. So it's clearly nothing urgent, but it bugged me, so I'm
> sending a patch.
Thanks.

How I hated these "rewrite in C" now comes back piece by piece, trickling in. That's the price of progress, I guess.

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