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Re: [PATCH] git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'

From
Auke Schrijnen <auke@schrijnen.nl>
Date
Sep 28, 2011, 08:52 UTC
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:47:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Auke Schrijnen <auke@schrijnen.nl> writes:
>
>> Completion for 'git remote update' only offers configured remote
>> groups.
>
> I have this suspicion that it might even be a feature. I am a bad 
> person
> to make the judgement, as I do not use the "grouping" feature at all.
>
> If you throw in individual remotes that are not grouped in the mix, 
> the
> users of "git remote update" auto-completion, who have been happily
> relying on seeing only the configured groups, suddenly will start 
> seeing
> many individual repositories offered, cluttering the available 
> choices.
> Besides, if you want to fetch from a single source, why not use "git
> fetch" directly?
>
> Back when "git fetch" didn't allow fetching from multiple 
> repositories in
> one go, "remote update" was written as a wrapper for the explicit 
> purpose
> of fetching from more than one remote by defining remote groups. 
> Since
> late 2009, "git fetch" can update from multiple remotes itself, and I
> suspect "git remote update" outlived its usefulness in some sense, 
> but
> that is a tangent.

I see your point and obviously i'm also not using the grouping feature. I could just use git fetch but i'm so used to type 'git remote update'... So i'll cook another patch.

Auke
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  1. git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'Auke Schrijnen, Sep 25, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  3. Auke SchrijnenSep 28, 2011
  4. git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'Auke Schrijnen, Sep 28, 2011

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