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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> Having something functionally similar to
> 
>   cg-clone git://foo.tld/bar.git#blue
> 
> would save a few steps -- and some potential confusion -- for projects
> using GIT.

I do agree with that "functionally similar", I just disagree with the 
syntax.

The thing is, we don't want a single branch name. Not for clone, not for 
fetch, not for pull, and not for push.

Yes, a single branch may be one common case, but it's definitely not the 
only one, and it's fundamentally the wrong thing to use as a definition of 
syntax. 

It's also the wrong thing to do for local stuff.

			Linus