Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 6, 2007, 01:17 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4pr5ar82.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <594263.16987.qm@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

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>>         [remote "origin"]
>>                 url = http://blah/blah.git
>>                 fetch = refs/heads/master
>> 
>> is also fine.  The point is that you do not have to use tracking
>> branches.  ", and when you get it here, ..." part is optional.
>
> Ok. So then in this case "fetch = refs/heads/master" describes
> .git/refs/heads/master or something else?

It names http://blah/blah.git/refs/heads/master (unless blah.git repository uses packed refs then has pruned the loose refs).

> If it does, then this is a local map.

No, it is just a list of remote refs (one element list because there is only one "fetch =" line).

> Does this mean that "fetch = <remote>:" is legal?  Shouldn't the
> RHS always exist?

Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt