Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] user-manual: Mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2013, 02:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwqu6cq7i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1ef8fd5d7754ef65a9aaf26250b7b9f0488ff59c.1361146398.git.wking@tremily.us>

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

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> From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
>
> I hardly ever setup remote.<name>.url using 'git config'.  While it
> may be instructive to do so, we should also point out 'git remote
> add'.
>
> Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
> ---

This looks like a good 'maint' material that can be applied straight away there in preparation for 1.8.1.4 to me (modulo one nit); reviewers watching from the sideline, please stop me if you see issues.

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> +After configuring the remote, the following two commands will do the
> +same thing:
>  
>  -------------------------------------------------
> +$ git fetch git://example.com/proj.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/*
> +$ git fetch example +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/*
>  $ git fetch example
>  -------------------------------------------------

These _three_ commands will do the same.