Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: (not changing what I said but editorial) > I myself do prefer, when learning a new tool, to use longhand > until I understand the shorthand, but that attitude requires a > true commitment to learn the tool, and most people do not go > that route. Tutorial style documents tend to give the commonly > used shorthand first for that exact reason. Eh, sorry, "prefer to use longhand until I understand what is going on before using the shorthand" is what I wanted to say. > Shorthand to give only the branch name to fetch and merge > immediately without using a tracking branch is equivalent to > longhand "branch:" as you found out, so if that was what was > desired then people with the attitude "before understanding what > longhand does I prefer using shorthand" like myself and you "prefer not using shorthand", sorry again. > would have liked to learn "git pull url branch:" notation from > Tutorial. But I think we _are_ minority. People would not want > to see that seemingly useless colon there. - 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