From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:39:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches
Message-ID: <201102012339.31684.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4D4875B2.4070008@gmail.com>

A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 04:44 PM, Thomas Rast wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> If this is proposing to break:
> 
> 	get-fetch ${REPO} ${SRC_REF}:${DST_REF}
> 
> then I am against this since that form _is_ used and *is* plumbing.

You're mixing up the two proposals.  This one is to teach

  git fetch repo foo

to update refs/remotes/repo/foo with the new value (maybe we should
also have it update in the foo:bar case, but I haven't thought that
through).

The other one is to forbid 'git pull repo foo:bar' and would not
change git-fetch at all.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch