Re: [RFC] pull/fetch rename

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:22:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

For example, I am in favor of deprecating the "pull $there $src:$dst"
notation.  Before we standardized on the separate remote layout, it was
sometimes handy to be able to use $dst that is a local branch, but these
days, especially when repository $there has remote.$there.fetch mapping
configured so that we can compute from $src what remote tracking branch we
should store the fetched commit, the flexibility is more confusing than it
is useful.

I emphatically agree. I was always uncomfortable with the refspec syntax,
because it is too flexible. Why would I ever want to access branch refs
other than refs/heads/ on the remote, and why would I ever want to write
directly to the local refs/heads/ namespace (in a non-bare repo), as opposed
to refs/remotes/<name>? Unless he wants to do something unusual, the user
should not be confronted with questions like that.

Clemens