From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:41:33 GMT Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Message-ID: <7vu00ysbwi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <87r6w3b68p.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Carl Worth writes: > 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.