Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> One other thought. One of the reasons why I used "dev" and not >> "ext4_for_linus" in my git request-pull command line was because that >> several months ago I had created a branch called ext4_for_linus, and I >> hadn't gotten around to deleting it, so I figured I'd just use "dev" >> instead, since it was non-ambiguous. > > You can always just use "tags/xyzzy" to disambiguate.. Not only that, the "look at the ls-remote output and guess what you are teeling the recipient to pull" code gives tags/ext4_for_linus even if there is not ext4-for-linus branch; if I recall correctly we did this on purpose so that older git that did not DWIM "git pull ext4_for_linus" to look at targs/ext4_for_linus. -- 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