From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:56:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Making git disappear when talking about my code
Message-ID: <7vzm4ww7lj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704251345220.28708@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> Linus has stated a preference on the lkml for being told about branches in 
> the syntax used for anonymous pulls: URL branchname.
>
> That is, you say:
>
>   Please pull from:
>     git://server/path branch
>
> And he cuts and pastes into the command line:
>
>   git pull git://server/path branch
>
> Now, this syntax isn't available for git-clone, because git-clone puts the 
> optional directory to create after the URL. But, in an ideal world, this 
> is how it would work; you could see a pull request, and just type "git 
> some-command <paste>".

I think I already suggested this to Carl once, but if you 
forget about 'git clone' in this case (or any other cases), your
example would just work.

	$ git init
        $ git pull git://server/path branch