Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2008, 08:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabmpovu5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080129T055937-532@post.gmane.org>

Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Having said that, I do not particularly think the new behaviour
>> is bad per-se.  If you are storing what you fetched locally in
>> tracking branches, you are interested in their work enough to
>> want to auto-follow their tags.
>
> How is "tracking" defined? Is this a term that implies some configuration
> to link a local branch to a remote branch? Or is any local branch created
> from a remote branch considered "tracking"?

I probably should have said "Instead of just letting fetch temporarily store the result in FETCH_HEAD and using it from there, you saved it away; that's a good indication of you care about it deeply enough".

It's really about what's convenient. I was somewhat upset that the behaviour change was not I was very aware of (perhaps I said it was a good idea and I then forgot), I didn't think the earlier behaviour was broken, but if I have to choose, I think the new behaviour is probably slightly nicer than the old one.