From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:17:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting new branches from remote repo.
Message-ID: <20061113091736.GA31693@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xigar36.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2006-11-12 20:49:33 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Alexander Litvinov" <litvinov2004@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have a trouble I don't know how to solve. When I am cloning
> > remote repo I automatically get all it's branches stored at my
> > repo (they are listed at .git/remotes/origin). When someone adds
> > new branch(es) to remote repo git pull (git fetch) does not
> > automatically add them to my repo. I have a tool to list all
> > remote branches (git ls-remote --heads origin) but I can't find
> > how to add interesting (or all) branches to by repo.
>
> After finding out $that_new_branch's name, add either
>
>       Pull: refs/heads/$that_new_branch:refs/heads/$that_new_branch
>
> or if you are in "separate remote" school, then perhaps
>
>       Pull: refs/heads/$that_new_branch:refs/remotes/origin/$that_new_branch
>
> to .git/remotes/origin and running git fetch would give you what you
> want, I think.

There really should be a flag to make git fetch do this job. And if we
use separate remotes, the flag should probably default to "on".

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com