From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:31:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704251626140.12375@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704251345220.28708@iabervon.org>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> Linus has stated a preference on the lkml for being told about branches in 
> the syntax used for anonymous pulls: URL branchname.
> 
> That is, you say:
> 
>   Please pull from:
>     git://server/path branch
> 
> And he cuts and pastes into the command line:
> 
>   git pull git://server/path branch
> 
> Now, this syntax isn't available for git-clone, because git-clone puts the 
> optional directory to create after the URL. But, in an ideal world, this 
> is how it would work; you could see a pull request, and just type "git 
> some-command <paste>".

Maybe git-pull could be made usable just as well from an empty 
repository (isn't it already?) as a substitute for clone.


Nicolas