From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:10:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061223031031.GA7412@socrates.priv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpsabv6tm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:39:33PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [PATCH] Do not support "partial URL shorthand" anymore.
>
> We used to support specifying the top part of remote URL in
> remotes and use that as a short-hand for the URL.
>
> $ cat .git/remotes/jgarzik
> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/
> $ git pull jgarzik/misc-2.6
>
> This is confusing when somebody attempts to do this:
>
> $ git pull origin/foo
>
> which is not syntactically correct (unless you have origin/foo.git
> repository) and should fail, but it resulted in a mysterious
> access to the 'foo' subdirectory of the origin repository.
>
> Which was what it was designed to do, but because this is an
> oddball "feature" I suspect nobody uses, let's remove it.
Except with the forthcoming submodule support, this feature might become
more useful.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 22:17 confusion over the new branch and merge config Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-21 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-21 23:21 ` Sean
2006-12-22 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 0:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 1:01 ` Sean
2006-12-22 8:31 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 7:50 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-22 8:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 8:39 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 15:25 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-22 20:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-22 21:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 21:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-22 22:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 3:10 ` Tom Prince [this message]
2006-12-23 5:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-23 5:12 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 5:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-23 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 6:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-23 6:28 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 7:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 7:25 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 9:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-23 10:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-23 15:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-23 22:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-24 6:15 ` Jeff King
2006-12-24 20:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-26 7:33 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 14:49 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 17:34 ` Jeff King
2007-01-02 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 20:30 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-03 0:24 ` Santi Béjar
2007-01-03 23:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-09 15:05 ` Jeff King
2007-01-09 16:18 ` Jeff King
2006-12-23 8:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 8:41 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-22 9:39 ` Lars Hjemli
2006-12-22 15:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
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