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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