Re: Cloning a custom refspec does not work as expected

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 3, 2017, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20170503200345.mjxvcv4o4wce3ddr@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuMUrNFv30d+pjheiCAikM89XshQTFuDXBzu+EcxNY_94w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:16:47PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

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> I'd assume that this would work:
> 
> $ git clone -c remote.origin.fetch=+refs/changes/*:refs/remotes/origin/changes/*
> https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
> 
> In fact, this *does* add the custom refs correct to .git/config, but
> they are not fetched during the clone. I can manually fix that by
> doing
> 
> $ cd git-repo
> $ git fetch
> 
> afterwards, but the whole point is to avoid exactly that separate step.
> 
> Is this a code bug or documentation bug?

I think it's a code bug. More discussion in:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/robbat2-20170225T185056-448272755Z@orbis-terrarum.net/

-Peff