From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:33:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem upgrading to 1.4.0
Message-ID: <1150165982.4297.88.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wtwh246.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:12 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This is the second time this same gotcha caused trouble here.  I
> agree it would be sensible to make git-fetch (which is called by
> git-pull) to detect stale entries in the remotes/origin file and
> remote.origin.fetch configuration items.

And while at that, it would be great to download and keep the list of
the remote branches, perhaps when requested with a special switch.  It
doesn't mean that all of the branches should be fetched, but it would be
nice to have a list of the available remove branches somewhere.

As it stands now, this functionality is implemented in git-clone, which
it probably not the best place.  Users should not be forced to clone the
directory again to find out which branches are available.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin