From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:39:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-fetch: do not use "*" for fetching multiple refs
Message-ID: <7vac2050nm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <el71tj$edm$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> 3.) The one with shell-like (fnmatch / glob) globbing
>       Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>
> By the way, with globbing we really need some other way than
> first Pull: line to select remote head to merge on "git pull".
> For example "Merge:" line / remote.<name>.merge config var.

Why?

        URL: some-where
        Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
        Pull: refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

works just fine.

But we should encourage people to use config to define default
merge source per-branch.