Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

(not changing what I said but editorial)

I myself do prefer, when learning a new tool, to use longhand
until I understand the shorthand, but that attitude requires a
true commitment to learn the tool, and most people do not go
that route.  Tutorial style documents tend to give the commonly
used shorthand first for that exact reason.

Eh, sorry, "prefer to use longhand until I understand what is
going on before using the shorthand" is what I wanted to say.

Shorthand to give only the branch name to fetch and merge
immediately without using a tracking branch is equivalent to
longhand "branch:" as you found out, so if that was what was
desired then people with the attitude "before understanding what
longhand does I prefer using shorthand" like myself and you

"prefer not using shorthand", sorry again.

would have liked to learn "git pull url branch:" notation from
Tutorial.  But I think we _are_ minority.  People would not want
to see that seemingly useless colon there.