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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] request-pull: do something if $3 is passed
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:34:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E3A5E2.6060806@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbj01fbz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>



On 17/02/2015 20:57, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sorry, I was asking what you mean by "complains" (i.e. the exact
> error message).  I was and am guessing it is something like this: 
> 
>     warn: No match for commit 3188ab3... found at <url>
>     warn: Are you sure you pushed 'HEAD' there?

Yes, it is.

> Asking to pull 'HEAD' may be often a wrong thing to do, and I
> wouldn't mind if this sequence:
> 
> 	git checkout kvm-next
>         git request-pull origin/master <url>
> 
> behaved the same way as
> 
>         git request-pull origin/master <url> kvm-next

FWIW, that would always be wrong for my scenario.

> But I do not know if the implicit HEAD should DWIM locally to this:
> 
>         git request-pull origin/master <url> for-linus

I guess only Linus could answer that, since he wrote 024d34cb0 and he
knows the intent better than anyone else.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-17 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-16 18:16 [PATCH 0/3] request-pull: do something if $3 is passed Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-16 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] request-pull: fix expected format in tests Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-16 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] request-pull: use "git tag --points-at" to detect local tags Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-16 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] request-pull: find matching tag or branch name on remote side Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-16 19:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] request-pull: do something if $3 is passed Junio C Hamano
2015-02-17 10:12   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-17 19:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-17 20:34       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-02-17 20:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-17 20:53           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-17 21:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-17 21:10               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-17 21:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-18  7:11                   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-17 21:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-17 21:08             ` Linus Torvalds

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