From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:49:03 GMT
Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2
Message-ID: <7v1wcoau0w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46F7E2A5.6030202@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com> writes:

> Linus Torvalds schrieb:
>
>> ...
>> Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch?
>
> I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do:
>
>    $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init
>    $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master
>
> (where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get
> all the tags. Good or bad?

That's exactly Linus meant "fetching a tracking branch".  Your
refspec has non-empty string on the RHS of the colon.

	$ git fetch ../git master

is the form without tracking.  IOW, not storing into your refs
namespace.