Re: [PATCH 0/7] Make "$remote/$branch" work with unconventional refspecs

Santi Béjar [off-list ref] writes:

The next question could be: why not make it work with $url too? As in:

$ git merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git//master

You need to remember "merge" is a local operation, working in your
local repository.  Like it or not, the UI of Git makes distinction
between operations that are local and those that go to other
repositories (e.g. "git pull").

That of course does _not_ prevent you from writing an alternative UI
"got merge <anything>" that interprets <anthing> part and invokes
"git merge" or "git pull" as its helper (after all, Git is designed
to be scripted).

El 06/05/2013 19:11, "Junio C Hamano" [off-list ref] va escriure:

Santi Béjar [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The next question could be: why not make it work with $url too? As in:

$ git merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git//master

You need to remember "merge" is a local operation, working in your
local repository.  Like it or not, the UI of Git makes distinction
between operations that are local and those that go to other
repositories (e.g. "git pull").

Of course! In fact I wanted to say "git pull".

Santi