From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:47:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416044726.GA831@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabjuv2c2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:41:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> What you would say on the second command is not literally "<branch2>" but
> something like "work-in-progress", or "crap". Even an AI would not be
> able to guess if you wanted to create a branch on the other side, or
> wanted to put a lightweight tag to let people know where you are (possibly
> with the intention of removing it once you are done), and git is not an AI.
Of course it can't guess all cases. But right now you have the option
of:
1. specifying the full destination manually
2. having git complain, and then doing (1)
I think changing (2) to "having git make a reasonable guess" is a better
behavior. And I think it is a reasonable guess to use the _same_ type,
just as we do with "git push <branch>".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 10:14 git annoyances Ingo Molnar
2008-04-09 10:41 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-09 14:57 ` Jeff King
2008-04-09 15:15 ` [PATCH] git-remote: show all remotes with "git remote show" Jeff King
2008-04-09 16:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-10 10:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-09 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-10 19:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-09 17:08 ` git annoyances Avery Pennarun
2008-04-10 8:41 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-04-10 15:05 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-11 7:00 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-04-09 20:08 ` Friendly refspecs (Was: Re: git annoyances) Teemu Likonen
2008-04-09 20:32 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-09 20:34 ` Jeff King
2008-04-09 22:25 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-04-09 22:51 ` Jeff King
2008-04-10 0:03 ` Jeff King
2008-04-10 0:11 ` Jeff King
2008-04-10 7:51 ` Friendly refspecs Junio C Hamano
2008-04-10 8:03 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <bd6139dc0804091616k53f4e0c1sf75aa9585c5a54c5@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-10 0:33 ` Friendly refspecs (Was: Re: git annoyances) Jeff King
2008-04-10 7:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-13 9:31 ` Friendly refspecs Teemu Likonen
2008-04-13 9:34 ` [PATCH] Add examples section to 'git fetch' manual Teemu Likonen
2008-04-13 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-13 19:48 ` Matt Graham
2008-04-13 20:05 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-04-14 1:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-16 3:48 ` Friendly refspecs Jeff King
2008-04-16 4:25 ` Jeff King
2008-04-16 4:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-16 4:47 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-04-16 15:42 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-16 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-22 10:56 ` Jeff King
2008-04-22 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-22 17:19 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-22 20:12 ` Jeff King
2008-04-22 20:05 ` Jeff King
2008-04-22 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-22 21:52 ` Jeff King
2008-04-23 4:24 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-04-23 5:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-23 6:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-23 9:16 ` Jeff King
2008-04-23 9:21 ` Jeff King
2008-04-23 11:15 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-04-09 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-10 7:38 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-04-12 18:59 ` git annoyances Santiago Gala
2008-04-09 19:21 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-09 20:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-10 14:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-09 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-09 21:39 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-04-09 23:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-09 21:45 ` Jeff King
2008-04-09 23:56 ` André Goddard Rosa
2008-04-10 19:45 ` Govind Salinas
2008-04-10 6:08 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2008-04-10 8:19 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-10 11:47 ` git-bisect annoyances Ingo Molnar
2008-04-11 5:41 ` Christian Couder
2008-04-11 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-12 6:56 ` Christian Couder
2008-04-11 5:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-10 23:25 ` [PATCH] When a remote is added but not fetched, tell the user Gabriel
2008-04-11 15:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-11 18:35 ` Gabriel
2008-04-11 18:39 ` [PATCH] Default to fetching a remote after adding it Gabriel
2008-04-11 19:17 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-12 14:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-12 15:13 ` Gabriel
2008-04-12 15:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-11 19:08 ` [PATCH] When a remote is added but not fetched, tell the user Teemu Likonen
2008-04-11 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-11 22:35 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-11 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-11 23:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-15 3:15 ` Miles Bader
2008-04-11 19:29 ` [PATCH] Default to fetching a remote after adding it Gabriel
2008-04-11 19:36 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-04-11 19:46 ` Gabriel
2008-04-11 10:15 ` git annoyances Luciano Rocha
2008-04-11 10:27 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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