Subject: Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config

From: Tom Prince <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:10:31 -0700

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:39:33PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [PATCH] Do not support "partial URL shorthand" anymore.
> 
> We used to support specifying the top part of remote URL in
> remotes and use that as a short-hand for the URL.
> 
> 	$ cat .git/remotes/jgarzik
> 	URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/
> 	$ git pull jgarzik/misc-2.6
> 
> This is confusing when somebody attempts to do this:
> 
> 	$ git pull origin/foo
> 
> which is not syntactically correct (unless you have origin/foo.git
> repository) and should fail, but it resulted in a mysterious
> access to the 'foo' subdirectory of the origin repository.
> 
> Which was what it was designed to do, but because this is an
> oddball "feature" I suspect nobody uses, let's remove it.

Except with the forthcoming submodule support, this feature might become
more useful.

  Tom