On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:39:33PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [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. Except with the forthcoming submodule support, this feature might become more useful. Tom - 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