Re: Everday contents

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2014, 18:41 UTC
Message-ID: <E675F06626AA430EB89D68FF67734824@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfvhdtrbj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>

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> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:08 PM
>> ...
>>>
>>> | Individual Developer (Participant)[[Individual Developer
>>> (Participant)]]
>>> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ...
>>> | $ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/libata-dev.git ALL
>>> <5>
>>
>> Would I be right that "ALL" can simply be dropped as something from
>> back then' (13 Dec 2005 v0.99.9-516-g44db136) that I'm ignorant of?
>
> The answer depends on the reason why you want to drop it from the
> example.
>
> That "ALL" is merely a branch name, like "master", etc.

That was the bit I was missing. I had it in my head that it was possibly some historic option as it was in caps.

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>  I do not
> know how jgarzik names his published branches these days, but back
> then ALL there was something that contained all the topics he wanted
> others to look at.  And the description of <5> explains it to be
> fetching a "specific branch", so that needs to be reworded if we are

I eventually went with using a lower case 'dev' as a nominal branch name, and also named it in the updated <5>. However I hadn't actually checked if the repos is still active.

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> to change the example to "from the default branch of a specific
> repository" or something.
>
>> ...
>>> | <5> fetch from a specific branch from a specific repository and
>>> merge.
>

Thanks.

Philip