Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2005 22:40:00 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] pull request notation |
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Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>>>"JG" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes: > > > JG> Please pull the 'new-ids' branch from > JG> > JG> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > JG> > JG> This add... > > I am not a kernel developer, but I think the way this particular > pull request is worded can be made much more friendly to Cogito > users (that probably is the rest of the world except you, me and > Linus ;-). They use URL fragment notation to express the branch > head, like this: > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git#new-ids > > At least for me, eyes always skip to the "rsync://..." part > immediately after seeing "Please pull.." part. > > For Linus I am willing to volunteer updating git-pull-script to > take the same URL fragment notation, but as Jeff correctly > pointed out it already takes the "branch" name as its second > parameter so it probably would not be necessary.
It's up to Linus really, he's the consumer of these messages.
Given that git-pull-script requires two arguments, URL and optional branch, it sounds like 'rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git new-ids' would be the best syntax, if it weren't for darned word wrap.
Jeff
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