From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:07:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Multi-head pulling series
Message-ID: <7vbr3p1mws.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200508221835.31275.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:

> I think that both, default and non-default persistant
> mappings, are only a handy convenience issue for less
> typing. If GIT core is not doing this, some (most?) porcelains
> will invent their own way for storing these mappings (like
> Cogito is doing with branches/). I think it is better if this
> is "standardized".

I agree in principle, and it should not be hard to add support
for optional "Default-pull" and "Default-push" keywords to
remotes/ files (lack of which means to use LHS of refspecs on
"Pull" or "Push" lines) to git-parse-remote-script.  Patches
welcome.

> Currently missing here is automatic detection of the remote
> repository for a given head to be pulled/pushed. But this is
> no format issue.

"git ls-remote <repo>" perhaps?