Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Well, "request" was very inprecise word -- I should have said
> "suggestion".  But I think I agree.
> 
> Seconds?  Thirds?
> 
> -- >8 --
> [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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Well since I suggested it I seconds this of course.

If it ever becomes useful for, say, submodules as someone pointed out, 
then this can be restored at that point and done properly for the task.


Nicolas