From: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:45:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] remote: add new --fetch option for set-url
Message-ID: <4081616.27DjsMG0kb@al>
In-Reply-To: <D7697DE2C591421E8588920BD4FE0455@PhilipOakley>

On Saturday 29 November 2014 13:31:18 Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "Peter Wu" <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
> > Ok, I will make a clear note about the default (without --only) 
> > behavior
> > having weird behavior for historical reasons. Are you really OK with
> > --only=both? It sounds a bit odd (mathematically speaking it is 
> > correct
> > as fetch and push are both partitions that form the whole set if you
> > ignore the historical behavior).
> >
> How about :
> 
> s/--only/--direction/
> 
> or some suitable abbreviation (--dirn ?)

In the next version of the patch I went for three separate options,
--fetch, --push and --both:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/260213
(Juno, Jeff: ping?)

The option --direction=<fetch|push|both> is a bit longer and --dirn can
be mistaken for "directory N".
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter
https://lekensteyn.nl