Re: Pulling from refs/remotes/ ?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>]

Junio C Hamano escreveu:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>> Yes, that works, thanks. Wouldn't it be more consistent with this
>> reasoning to disallow 
>>
>>   git pull . LOCAL-BRANCH 
>>
>> too?
> 
> I do not think so.
> 
> If somebody else (or yourself) did:
> 
> 	$ git pull $dir LOCAL-BRANCH
> 
> (replace $dir with the `pwd` you would get in your repository),
> that would work.  Why shouldn't it work for yourself?
 
Because

"You are treating your local repository as if it is a remote
repository somewhere else, namely, '.' (current repository)."

that was the justification for not being able to pull in a remote
branch.  This justification (which I disagree with) applies to this
case as well.

I understand that we don't want people committing to
remotes, because fetches will then later fail, but other than 
that, why should there be limitations on using a remote?

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