From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:22:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches
Message-ID: <20110131232231.GE14419@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <201101312244.10047.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:44:09PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Running "git fetch origin master" only updates FETCH_HEAD, not
> origin/master, which turns out to be quite confusing for newcomers
> especially after running 'git pull origin master'.
> 
> Since the remote branches in some sense reflect the "last known state"
> of the remote, it would make sense to also update them to whatever a
> two-argument fetch got.

I like this one. FYI, I posted a patch in Aug 2009, and there was some
discussion about the impacts (it spills over into the sibling
subthreads):

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/127215

I'm actually still carrying the patch in my repository (and using it
every day!). I guess I should get on polishing it up...

-Peff