Re: Making git disappear when talking about my code (was: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument)

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