From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs
Message-ID: <7vabk23esz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080409200836.GA19248@mithlond>

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

[By the way, please never redirect the response to your messages away from
you with:

    Mail-Followup-To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
            git@vger.kernel.org

You wasted 30 seconds of my (and anybody who potentially wanted to give
advice to you) time by forcing me fix the To: header while composing this
response.  I know Jeff understands what I am going to mention, and I do
not want to waste his time by putting him on To: header.]

> Currently "git fetch <URL>" does not seem to do anything useful for
> non-git-hackers. It seems to fetch objects but not create any branches
> referring to them.

I'd suggest you to study:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31351/focus=31634

Not everybody wants remote tracking.