Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/4] Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 9, 2009, 01:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20091109010824.GA17414@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718490911081659u318ea362l29342a9b3d90f03f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:59:46PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> 2009/11/8 Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>:
> > Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either
> > groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is
> > to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch.
> 
> Can't this be determined automagically by inspecting the arguments? I
> believe there can be two unambiguous usages:
> [...]
> "The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus +, followed
> by the source ref <src>, followed by a colon :, followed by the
> destination ref <dst>."

Isn't the colon optional, indicating that the ref should be fetched into FETCH_HEAD? I.e.,

  $ git fetch origin pu
  From git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   * branch            pu         -> FETCH_HEAD

-Peff