From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:14:27 GMT
Subject: Re: history missing
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=eFJ5qTWLD-AdczeDtSAtxs9xihuO+QQ8tVLyj@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201011081448.10723.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
>> Sorry, maybe I misunderstood what the confusion was about. What I was
>> referring to was the confusion caused by 'git fetch origin master' not
>> updating 'refs/remotes/origin/master'.
>
> Should it really do it?  What if it does not exist?  What if <remote>
> is specified via URL?

I would probably not expect it to be updated (even if the URL matches a
configured remove). If the reference does not yet exist, I think I would
expect it to be created.

> If I understand correctly current behavior of 'git fetch <remote> <branch>'
> wrt. FETCH_HEAD was meant for one-off 'git pull <remote> <branch>', or
> rather 'git pull <URL> <branch>'.

Also see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/127163/.
Junio, Jeff and Avery can argue much better for and against this than I
can. I read it at some point, but I don't quite remember now if they did
discuss the historical reasons for the current behavior in that thread.

/Martin