Re: What is the default refspec for fetch?

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0100, Christian Halstrick wrote:
>
>> In a repo where no remote.<name>.fetch config parameter is set what
>> should a "git fetch" do? My experiments let me think it's
>> "HEAD:FETCH_HEAD". Right?
>
> Basically, yes. We always write FETCH_HEAD, regardless of the refspec.
> We choose "HEAD" if no other refspec was provided. So it is really more
> like
>
>    git fetch $remote HEAD
>
> This is what makes one-off bare-url pulls work, like:
>
>    git pull git://...
>
> It runs fetch under the hood, which writes into FETCH_HEAD, and then we
> merge that.