From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

>> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Another trick is to use "git push":
>>>         git push . $production_sha1:refs/heads/master
>
> It all falls out naturally from the "Git is distributed and no
> repository is special" principle.  I think that word "trick" merely
> refers to "those who do not realize that the local repository is not
> all that special and merely is _a_ repository just like anybody
> else's may not realize they can do this", nothing more.

Nobody cares.

>> Filipe gave 'git fetch .' in [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local
>> option, 16 May 2013
>
> That patch came from a mistaken suggestion from me that was
> retracted with

You say it's "mistaken", but you are not the arbiter of truth; the
fact that you say it's so doesn't make it so. It's just rhetoric.

You haven't shown that it's indeed mistaken.

-- 
Felipe Contreras