From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:38:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] remote: add new sync command
Message-ID: <7vvcqqr4wg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3wrb7lzg8.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Perhaps these 'git remote' commands should be removed in 1.8 then.
>> 
>> It is true that it was a long-term goal to deprecate many parts of the
>> "git remote" script that started as a hack to scratch itches "git fetch"
>> in the older days did not directly scratch for people, e.g. fetching from
>> multiple remotes in one go.
>> 
>> I do not think 1.7.X series to 1.8 is a big enough jump to remove
>> duplicated features, though.
>  
> I am using "git remote update" to fetch a _subset_ of remotes;
> does "git fetch" offers such feature already?

Heh, look at builtin/remote.c::update() and report what you see.  It just
calls into "git fetch" and let the command fetch either from a single
repository or from a remote group. "git remote update" is not even aware
of the remote groups; the expansion is done by "git fetch".

Whoever added "multiple repositories" feature to "git fetch" in order to
support "remote update <group>" apparently under-documented it.