From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:44:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Question regarding git fetch
Message-ID: <7v7hwpors9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090827213426.GD4399@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   # we usually fetch the remote's master straight into our production
>   # branch for deployment
>   $ git config remote.origin.fetch refs/heads/master:refs/heads/production
>
>   # but today let's demo it first
>   $ git fetch origin master:demo

I think this is a good example that any change results from this
discussion should apply _only_ to cases where command line refspecs lack
colon (i.e. used to mean "do not store this anywhere but in FETCH_HEAD").