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[PATCH 2/2] Fetch: get the remote branches to merge from the branch properties

From
SBSanti Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 23, 2006, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID
<877izux5d2.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<87venex5je.fsf@gmail.com>
If in branch "foo" and this in config:
[branch "foo"]
      merge=bar
"git fetch": fetch from the default repository and program the "bar"
             branch to be merged with pull.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    4 ++++
 git-parse-remote.sh      |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 04c5094..98c1f3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ apply.whitespace::
 branch.<name>.remote::
 	When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch.
 
+branch.<name>.merge::
+	When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` the default remote branch
+	to be merged.
+
 pager.color::
 	A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
 	use (default is true).
diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
index 6999816..d3a1b9a 100755
--- a/git-parse-remote.sh
+++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
@@ -92,9 +92,22 @@ get_remote_default_refs_for_push () {
 
 # Subroutine to canonicalize remote:local notation.
 canon_refs_list_for_fetch () {
-	# Leave only the first one alone; add prefix . to the rest
+	# If called from get_remote_default_refs_for_fetch
+	# leave the branches in branch.${curr_branch}.merge alone,
+	# or the first one otherwise; add prefix . to the rest
 	# to prevent the secondary branches to be merged by default.
-	dot_prefix=
+	if test "$1" = "-d"
+	then
+		shift ; remote="$1" ; shift
+		if test "$remote" = "$(get_default_remote)"
+		then
+			curr_branch=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD | \
+			    sed -e 's|^refs/heads/||')
+			merge_branches=$(git-repo-config \
+			    --get-all "branch.${curr_branch}.merge")
+		fi
+	fi
+	[ -z "$merge_branches" ] && merge_branches=$1
 	for ref
 	do
 		force=
@@ -107,6 +120,11 @@ canon_refs_list_for_fetch () {
 		expr "z$ref" : 'z.*:' >/dev/null || ref="${ref}:"
 		remote=$(expr "z$ref" : 'z\([^:]*\):')
 		local=$(expr "z$ref" : 'z[^:]*:\(.*\)')
+		dot_prefix=.
+		for merge_branch in $merge_branches
+		do
+		    [ "$remote" = "$merge_branch" ] && dot_prefix= && break
+		done
 		case "$remote" in
 		'') remote=HEAD ;;
 		refs/heads/* | refs/tags/* | refs/remotes/*) ;;
@@ -126,7 +144,6 @@ canon_refs_list_for_fetch () {
 		   die "* refusing to create funny ref '$local_ref_name' locally"
 		fi
 		echo "${dot_prefix}${force}${remote}:${local}"
-		dot_prefix=.
 	done
 }
 
@@ -137,7 +154,7 @@ get_remote_default_refs_for_fetch () {
 	'' | config-partial | branches-partial)
 		echo "HEAD:" ;;
 	config)
-		canon_refs_list_for_fetch \
+		canon_refs_list_for_fetch -d "$1" \
 			$(git-repo-config --get-all "remote.$1.fetch") ;;
 	branches)
 		remote_branch=$(sed -ne '/#/s/.*#//p' "$GIT_DIR/branches/$1")
@@ -145,10 +162,7 @@ get_remote_default_refs_for_fetch () {
 		echo "refs/heads/${remote_branch}:refs/heads/$1"
 		;;
 	remotes)
-		# This prefixes the second and later default refspecs
-		# with a '.', to signal git-fetch to mark them
-		# not-for-merge.
-		canon_refs_list_for_fetch $(sed -ne '/^Pull: */{
+		canon_refs_list_for_fetch -d "$1" $(sed -ne '/^Pull: */{
 						s///p
 					}' "$GIT_DIR/remotes/$1")
 		;;
-- 
1.4.2.1.g94da7
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