Re: Dose git-fetch need --reference option like git-clone?

>
> No, there is no such thing.
>
> I think what you are talking about is a reasonable thing to
> want.  It would have been easier to hack in back when git-fetch
> was a script, but now you would need to work a bit harder in the
> C code.  On the other hand, however, I suspect the resulting
> code would be cleaner without having to actually create and
> delete temporary refs in refs/reference-tmp/ namespace but fake
> them only in-core, with a proper transport API enhancements.
>
> But if you only want a quick-and-dirty workaround, you can
> manually do refs/reference-tmp and objects/info/alternates dance
> that is done by git-clone before running a git-fetch from such
> "nearby" remote.