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Subject: Re: Now what: multiple HEAD refs
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/15/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > $ git pull . ref1 HEAD (notice the space!)
>>
>> If you were too used to git merge, you would have wrote
>> HEAD before ref1, so that does not sound plausible ;-).
>
> no, that I have remembered. What I constantly forget is the
> space-vs-colon difference.

That statement sounds as if "git pull . ref1:HEAD" makes some
sense and you typed it without colon by mistake.  But it does
not make any sense to me; I am puzzled ... what are you trying
to achieve with "git pull . ref1:HEAD"?

The patch from Johannes feels right but I haven't had caffeine
yet, so..