Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config

> Well, "request" was very inprecise word -- I should have said
> "suggestion".  But I think I agree.
> 
> Seconds?  Thirds?
> 
> -- >8 --
> [PATCH] Do not support "partial URL shorthand" anymore.
> 
> We used to support specifying the top part of remote URL in
> remotes and use that as a short-hand for the URL.
> 
> 	$ cat .git/remotes/jgarzik
> 	URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/
> 	$ git pull jgarzik/misc-2.6
> 
> This is confusing when somebody attempts to do this:
> 
> 	$ git pull origin/foo
> 
> which is not syntactically correct (unless you have origin/foo.git
> repository) and should fail, but it resulted in a mysterious
> access to the 'foo' subdirectory of the origin repository.
> 
> Which was what it was designed to do, but because this is an
> oddball "feature" I suspect nobody uses, let's remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>