From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:41:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git remote update -> rejected
Message-ID: <20080422124118.GA3098@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080422111113.GB11238@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote (2008-04-22 07:11 -0400):

> remote: create fetch config lines with '+'
> 
> Since git-remote always uses remote tracking branches, it
> should be safe to always force updates of those branches.
> I.e., we should generate
> 
>   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/$remote/*
> 
> instead of
> 
>   fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/$remote/*
> 
> This was the behavior of the perl version, which seems to
> have been lost in the C rewrite.

I agree, the "+" should be there. I see remote tracking branches as,
well, branches that track remote repository - no matter what happens
there. Local branches are under user's personal control, so if user
wants to save/keep the information of remote branches he can create
local ones out of them: git branch localcopy $remote/$branch