From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:02:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <epv25o$tpm$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070201150545.GA30858@mellanox.co.il
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Quoting Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>> Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work?
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>
>> > Should I not be able to use . as a URL?
>> > git push seems to think . is a remote, not a URL:
>>
>> You seem to be infected by the less-than-intuitive
>> "git pull ."-makes-perfect-sense camp.
>
> Not really, I don't really care.
>
>> Why not just do "git branch to from"?
>
> Because I want to update am existing local branch that is different from
> what I have checked out.
But git-branch does _not_ do checkout, so you can use it to manipulate
branches even if you are on different branch (even if you have different
branch checked out)!
Neither git-fetch not git-push understand '.' remote; git-pull was (and is)
special case to allow git-fetch+git-pull workflow.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-02 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-01 14:56 should git push . from:to work? Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-02-01 15:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 15:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-02-02 10:02 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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