Proposal:
git-pull inherits the full fetchspec invocation syntax from git-fetch,
so that you can do e.g.
git pull origin master:master
usually shooting yourself in the foot in the process. See e.g.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130819/focus=130879 [item 1]
Prohibit this invocation, i.e., disallow any second argument to
git-pull that contains ':'.
History:
I submitted a patch ages ago:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130822
Sean seemed to be the only one in favour of the old behaviour, but I
was too lazy to push it past him. (There were some issues with the
test as well.)
I honestly still don't see a valid use-case for the full syntax, let
alone having seen one in the wild; in cases where you are inclined to
do
git pull origin foo:bar
you probably don't need 'bar' to begin with if you can use
'origin/foo' instead, assuming the previous proposal on remote-branch
updating is also included.
Risks:
It's an incompatibility, so scripts may break.
Migration plan:
None; disallow it at the 1.8.0 boundary.
If someone makes a good case why his hands are trained that way, we
might introduce a config variable instead.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch