Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu00ysbwi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87r6w3b68p.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:57:00 -0800, "Michael K. Edwards" wrote:
>> What do you want all of those branches for?  They haven't been
>> published to you (that's a human interaction that doesn't go through
>> git), so for all you know they're just upstream experiments, and doing
>> things with them is probably shooting yourself in the foot.
>
> The same "what do you want them all for" question could be asked of
> git-clone which also fetches all available branches. I really just
> want to be able to easily watch what's going on in multiple
> repositories.
>
> I want to be able to just say "git update" (or whatever) and then be
> able to list and browse and explore the stuff locally.
>...

I have no objection to this if it is done in a controlled way that does not make life more difficult for people who work with multiple remote repositories.

And I think "git fetch" is the tool for what you want if enhanced properly; see Linus's message that explaind that we already have that support in "manually configurable" form but initializing and maintaining the configuration is currently all manual and can be improved.