Re: should git maintenance prefetch be taught to honor remote.fetch refspec?

> Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> writes:
> 
>> $ git config --local --get-regexp "pr-924"
>> remote.pr-924.url https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git
>> remote.pr-924.fetch +refs/tags/pr-924/derrickstolee/maintenance/refspec-v1
>>
>> Seems legal, fetch even works
> 
> Yes.  For a ref that is one-shot use (like PR tags), this does not
> make much sense, but
> 
>     [remote "submaintainer1"]
> 	url = ... repository of submaintainer #1 ...
> 	fetch = master
> 	tagopts = --no-tags
> 
> is a reasonable thing to have for those who regularly work with
> submaintainer(s) of their project.  They'd do
> 
> 	$ git pull submaintainer1
> 
> to accept the work their submaintainers have done.