"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> My reading of the earlier parts of the series is that Linus wanted >> us never dwim "for-upstream" to "tags/for-upstream" or any other ref >> that happens to point at the same commit as for-upstream you have. >> The changes done for that purpose covered various cases a bit too >> widely, and "request-pull ... tags/for_upstream" were incorrectly >> stripped to a request to pull "for_upstream", which was fixed by >> 5aae66bd (request-pull: resurrect "pretty refname" feature, >> 2014-02-25). >> >> But that fix does not resurrect the dwimming forbid by the earlier >> parts of the series to turn "for_upstream" into "tags/for_upstream". >> >> What would you get if you do this? >> >> $ git request-pull origin/master \ >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu.git \ >> tags/for_upstream | grep git.kernel.org > > > I get > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu.git tags/for_upstream Thanks for double-checking. Let's close this as working as intended, then. I personally feel that the "intention" tightened the logic a bit too much [*1*], and with the updates mentioned in [*2*], existing users may find it still too tight, but that is what we have today. [References] *1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240860 *2* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240886 -- 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