Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-03-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine sunsh...@sunshineco.com writes: +Prepare a request to your upstream project to pull your changes to +their tree to the standard output, by summarizing your changes and +showing where your changes can be pulled from. Perhaps splitting this into two sentence (and using fewer

Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-03-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Sorry for back-burnering this topic so long. I think the following does what you suggested in the message I am responding to. Now, hopefully the only thing we need is a documentation update and the series should be ready to go. ... and here it is,

Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-03-12 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: [PATCH] request-pull: documentation updates The original description talked only about what it does. Instead, start it with the purpose of the command, i.e. what it is used for, and then mention what it does to

Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-02-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org writes: Thinking some more about the tag_name issue, I realize that the other patch (Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote) broke another thing. The first patch pretty-printed the local branch-name, removing refs/ and

Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-01-29 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:34:32PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: The previous two steps were meant to stop promoting the explicit refname the user gave to the command to a different ref that points at it. Most notably, we no longer substitute a branch name the user used with a name of the tqag

Re: Re* [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote

2014-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: I am not yet doing the docs, but here is a minimal (and I think is the most sensible) fix to the If I asked a tag to be pulled, I used to get the message from the tag in the output---the updated code no longer does so