On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> 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
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