From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:20:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] fast-export: add new --refspec option
Message-ID: <5282b7cdf3b12_1d45133de74b8@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq38n1guo8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Does it?
> >
> >  % git config remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes-test/origin/*'
> >  % git fetch origin master
> >  From /home/felipec/dev/git
> >   * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
> >   * [new branch]      master     -> refs/remotes-test/origin/master
> >
> > In this case remote.origin.fetch is determining how to translate ref names, not
> > what gets transferred, *exactly* the same as we are doing with --refspec. And
> > as far as I know, remote.origin.fetch is a refspec.
> 
> If you had 'next' and 'pu' branches at the remote, do they get
> fetched with that command line?

No, why would they? You specified a single branch to fetch. Try it yourself.

 % git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
 % git config remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes-test/origin/*'
 % git fetch origin master

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Felipe Contreras