Re: when is a remote a branch?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 14, 2006, 20:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20061114204410.GK7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200611142136.17517.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:36:16PM CET, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Petr "Pasky" Baudis wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:31:18PM CET, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, with introduction of branches and remotes in config file,
> >> you can say:
> >>  [branch "localbranch"]
> >> 	remote = someremote
> >>  [remote "someremote"]
> >> 	fetch = remotebranch:localbranch
> >> 	push  = remotebranch:localbranch
> >> 
> >> and that would be equivalent to example branches file from
> >> the beginning of this email.
> > 
> > According to the documentation, this is not really useful since this
> > just tells what should git fetch default to when on branch
> > "localbranch". But "localbranch" is still just a branch representing a
> > state in a remote repository, so you should never be _on_ it in a sane
> > setup, but instead on a different branch which tracks it.
> 
> Oh. Can you "git fetch Localbranch" _without_ repository named 
> "localbranch" in above case?

So that it would be equivalent to git fetch someremote, and also fetch any other branches associated with that remote?

I would hope not. :-)

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