From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:47:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'
Message-ID: <7v8vp9trvu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <347b845858abcc62551d83df324e5c10@schrijnen.nl>

Auke Schrijnen <auke@schrijnen.nl> writes:

> Completion for 'git remote update' only offers configured remote
> groups.

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.