On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 It works for Linus's usage, where he expects to get all the info again next time there's more useful stuff. I don't think this configures things so that: $ git init $ git pull git://server/path branch ... wait a couple of weeks and forget the URL ... $ git pull works. (Although I haven't actually checked, so I could be totally wrong) -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - 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