On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:22:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > For example, I am in favor of deprecating the "pull $there $src:$dst" > notation. Before we standardized on the separate remote layout, it was > sometimes handy to be able to use $dst that is a local branch, but these > days, especially when repository $there has remote.$there.fetch mapping > configured so that we can compute from $src what remote tracking branch we > should store the fetched commit, the flexibility is more confusing than it > is useful. I emphatically agree. I was always uncomfortable with the refspec syntax, because it is too flexible. Why would I ever want to access branch refs other than refs/heads/ on the remote, and why would I ever want to write directly to the local refs/heads/ namespace (in a non-bare repo), as opposed to refs/remotes/<name>? Unless he wants to do something unusual, the user should not be confronted with questions like that. Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html