From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:53:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting new branches from remote repo.
Message-ID: <20061113175354.GA16094@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20061113174457.GA16979@spearce.org>

On 2006-11-13 12:44:57 -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>
> > 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".
>
> And also to automatically stop fetching any branch which is no
> longer listed on the remote system, rather than reporting a "Fetch
> failure".

Yes.

> I probably would keep the local ref (they are cheap) just in case
> the user was counting on that branch and then the remote system
> pulled the rug out from under them. :-)

Sounds like good default behavior. But I smell the potential for
another command flag here. :-)

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com