Re: should git push . from:to work?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2007, 10:02 UTC
Message-ID: <epv25o$tpm$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070201150545.GA30858@mellanox.co.il>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>> Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work?

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>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> 
>> > Should I not be able to use . as a URL?
>> > git push seems to think . is a remote, not a URL:
>> 
>> You seem to be infected by the less-than-intuitive
>> "git pull ."-makes-perfect-sense camp.
> 
> Not really, I don't really care.
> 
>> Why not just do "git branch to from"?
> 
> Because I want to update am existing local branch that is different from
> what I have checked out.

But git-branch does _not_ do checkout, so you can use it to manipulate branches even if you are on different branch (even if you have different branch checked out)!

Neither git-fetch not git-push understand '.' remote; git-pull was (and is) special case to allow git-fetch+git-pull workflow.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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