From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:03:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git bug? + question
Message-ID: <7vk62bxvtx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200611031815.49553.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

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

> On Friday 03 November 2006 10:46, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>> Hmm. How about changing the meaning of "remote" slightly? Like this:
>
> That's not good, as it changes existing config meaning.
>...
> Other option: Introduce "fetchonly" line which ignores the original
> fetch lines in the remote section.
>
>        [remote."gitster"]
>                url = gitster.example.com:/home/junio/git.git/
>                fetch = heads/master:remotes/gitster/master
>                fetch = heads/next:remotes/gitster/next
>        [branch."master"]
>                remote = gitster
>                fetchonly = heads/master:remotes/gitster/master
>                merge = remotes/gitster/master

That is a regression in that now I need to fetch twice (in the
above example, in reality four).