From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work? Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:05:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20070201150545.GA30858@mellanox.co.il> References: Reply-To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 01 16:06:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCdVs-0005wg-Re for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:06:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422921AbXBAPFs (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:05:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422919AbXBAPFs (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:05:48 -0500 Received: from dev.mellanox.co.il ([194.90.237.44]:33076 "EHLO dev.mellanox.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422914AbXBAPF1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:05:27 -0500 Received: from mellanox.co.il ([194.90.237.34]) by dev.mellanox.co.il (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id l11F5JiC027991; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:05:19 +0200 Received: by mellanox.co.il (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:05:45 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Quoting Johannes Schindelin : > Subject: Re: should git push . from:to work? > > Hi, > > 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. -- MST