Proposal: git-pull inherits the full fetchspec invocation syntax from git-fetch, so that you can do e.g. git pull origin master:master usually shooting yourself in the foot in the process. See e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130819/focus=130879 [item 1] Prohibit this invocation, i.e., disallow any second argument to git-pull that contains ':'. History: I submitted a patch ages ago: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130822 Sean seemed to be the only one in favour of the old behaviour, but I was too lazy to push it past him. (There were some issues with the test as well.) I honestly still don't see a valid use-case for the full syntax, let alone having seen one in the wild; in cases where you are inclined to do git pull origin foo:bar you probably don't need 'bar' to begin with if you can use 'origin/foo' instead, assuming the previous proposal on remote-branch updating is also included. Risks: It's an incompatibility, so scripts may break. Migration plan: None; disallow it at the 1.8.0 boundary. If someone makes a good case why his hands are trained that way, we might introduce a config variable instead. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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