Re: [PATCH] pull: refuse complete src:dst fetchspec arguments

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:05:27AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> What if any combination of fetch and merge always gave you the long
> form?  After all, even if you do have a tracking branch for whatever
> you are merging, that information is probably useless and it would be
> nicer if all of the following resulted in the long form:
> 
> * git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git pu
>   git merge FETCH_HEAD
> 
> * git remote add origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>   git fetch origin
>   git merge origin/pu
> 
> * git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git pu:tmp
>   git merge tmp

Maybe it's just me, but I actually prefer the shorthand names. Five
years from now when I browse the history and see that I merged
remote branch "mike/topic", I'll know exactly what that means: developer
Mike's version of a certain topic branch. But I am not likely to care
about exactly where we were storing developer repos at that time.

But probably that is an artifact of the workflow. The scenario I am
describing above implies a somewhat centralized workflow, where the
shorthand contains all of the interesting information. In a totally
distributed, we-don't-share-anything-except-the-url-namespace setup of
an open source repo, the full URL makes more sense.

So maybe it is something that should be optional.

-Peff

> 
> and so on.
> 
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