From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:54:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs
Message-ID: <81b0412b0512150654o49e1edacu67b88df6347736d2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkymph4f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

exactly.

> not make any sense to me; I am puzzled ... what are you trying
> to achieve with "git pull . ref1:HEAD"?

merge branch ref1 into current. Is that not a correct refspec?