From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:32:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs (Was: Re: git annoyances)
Message-ID: <32541b130804091332g539037d9x7f135a27ec25b888@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080409200836.GA19248@mithlond>

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>  So would it be any good if "git fetch <URL>" without refpecs would use
>  +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/<name>/* ? In any case the current behaviour
>  seems quite unfriendly.

But what should <name> be if you didn't provide it by doing
git-remote-add?  I think the lack of an obvious name for them is
exactly why the branch names don't get created automatically.

Avery