Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ?

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

Yes, that works, thanks. Wouldn't it be more consistent with this
reasoning to disallow 

  git pull . LOCAL-BRANCH 

too?

I do not think so.

If somebody else (or yourself) did:

	$ git pull $dir LOCAL-BRANCH

(replace $dir with the `pwd` you would get in your repository),
that would work.  Why shouldn't it work for yourself?

Junio C Hamano escreveu:

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Yes, that works, thanks. Wouldn't it be more consistent with this
reasoning to disallow 

  git pull . LOCAL-BRANCH 

too?

I do not think so.

If somebody else (or yourself) did:

	$ git pull $dir LOCAL-BRANCH

(replace $dir with the `pwd` you would get in your repository),
that would work.  Why shouldn't it work for yourself?

 
Because

"You are treating your local repository as if it is a remote
repository somewhere else, namely, '.' (current repository)."

that was the justification for not being able to pull in a remote
branch.  This justification (which I disagree with) applies to this
case as well.

I understand that we don't want people committing to
remotes, because fetches will then later fail, but other than 
that, why should there be limitations on using a remote?

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen