From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:35:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Per-remote tracking branch
Message-ID: <20090924113537.GA14113@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20090924112550.GA6540@atjola.homenet>

On 2009.09.24 13:25:50 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2009.09.15 17:29:58 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > At the moment, I can configure a tracking branch to let me just type
> > 
> > $ git pull
> > 
> > when I want to say
> > 
> > $ git pull origin master
> > 
> > Now, assume I have another remote "foo", I'd like to be able to just
> > say
> > 
> > $ git pull foo
> > 
> > and put something in my .git/config so that Git knows I mean
> > 
> > $ git pull foo master
> > 
> > Is there a simple way to do that?
> 
> Setup "foo" so that it fetches "master" only, i.e. have
> remote.foo.fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/foo/master
> 
> You get that setup with: git remote add -t master foo git://...
> 
> Then there's only one possible choice for "git pull", and it will take
> that.

Ah, crap, spoke too soon. That works only when branch.<name>.merge is
not set. Though that's not that much of a problem. When your "primary"
remote (the one set for branch.<name>.remote) also fetches just a single
branch, "git pull" will still work, even if branch.<name>.merge is not
set.

Björn