Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linus has stated a preference on the lkml for being told about branches in > the syntax used for anonymous pulls: URL branchname. > > That is, you say: > > Please pull from: > git://server/path branch > > And he cuts and pastes into the command line: > > git pull git://server/path branch > > Now, this syntax isn't available for git-clone, because git-clone puts the > optional directory to create after the URL. But, in an ideal world, this > is how it would work; you could see a pull request, and just type "git > some-command <paste>". I think I already suggested this to Carl once, but if you forget about 'git clone' in this case (or any other cases), your example would just work. $ git init $ git pull git://server/path branch - 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