El 06/05/2013 00:36, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > > Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This would not allow the user to use the relevant $remote_name for $nick, > > which I argue might be the more natural name for the user to use, since > > it's the same name that is used for otherwise interacting with the remote. > > That is where we differ. > > The thing is, when you name a local ref (be it "refs/heads/master" > or "refs/remotes/origin/master") with a short-hand, you are still > dealing with a refname, not interacting with the remote at all. > > Taking notice of remote.$nick.fetch mappings only to complicate the > refname resolution logic is absolutely unacceptable, at least to > somebody who comes from the "we are interacting with refs, not with > remotes" school, like me. Maybe we could mark it explicity with a double slash: "$remote//$branch", or similar. And it even allows a slash in the remote nick: "bar/baz//foo". See you, Santi P.D: Resend because the list rejected it, sorry for the duplicate. -- 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