Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <ejf18p$tbt$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <455B04DE.1040107@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> [ axed a lot of stuff that I didn't fully grok ]
> 
>> 
>> This becomes formalized as:
>> 
>>      git_pull [<URL>] [<local_name>]
>> 
>> If <URL> includes a branch name then <local_name> is a single branch 
>> name.  If <URL> doesn't include any branch name then <local_name> 
>> becomes a local branch group name containing all branches in the remote 
>> repository.
> 
> I would change that so "local_name" is always a branch group name, but 
> branch group names can be used as refs. That is,
> 
> git pull startrek.com/kirk.git:master kirk

I'd rather use Cogito (not gitweb) notation startrek.com/kirk.git#master
This way we can change the name of local branch
   startrek.com/kirk.git#master:kirk

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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