Re: [PATCH] git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'

Auke Schrijnen <auke@schrijnen.nl> writes:

I have this suspicion that it might even be a feature. I am a bad person to make the judgement, as I do not use the "grouping" feature at all.

If you throw in individual remotes that are not grouped in the mix, the users of "git remote update" auto-completion, who have been happily relying on seeing only the configured groups, suddenly will start seeing many individual repositories offered, cluttering the available choices. Besides, if you want to fetch from a single source, why not use "git fetch" directly?

Back when "git fetch" didn't allow fetching from multiple repositories in one go, "remote update" was written as a wrapper for the explicit purpose of fetching from more than one remote by defining remote groups. Since late 2009, "git fetch" can update from multiple remotes itself, and I suspect "git remote update" outlived its usefulness in some sense, but that is a tangent.