From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:56:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyN7WWAF6pGfP+0j29nf6ETao0J5sUu+5UDaXUYC9_Geg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsises3u0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Will be fine, provided if they always use local:remote syntax, I'd
> agree.

Why? No sane user should actually need to use the local:remote syntax.

The normal situation should be that you create the correctly named
branch or tag locally, and then push it out under that name.

So I don't actually think anybody should need to be retrained, or
"always use the local:remote" syntax. The local:remote syntax exists
only for that special insane case where you used (the same)
local:remote syntax to push out a branch under a different name.

[ And yeah, maybe that behavior is more common than I think, but even
if it is, such behavior would always be among people who are *very*
aware of the whole "local branch vs remote branch name is different"
situation. ]

                   Linus