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What is the default refspec for fetch?

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Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 7, 2014, 15:31 UTC
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Hi,

In a repo where no remote.<name>.fetch config parameter is set what should a "git fetch" do? My experiments let me think it's "HEAD:FETCH_HEAD". Right?

I came to this question after finding out that when I clone repos in bare mode then they don't have and explicit remote.<name>.fetch in their config. But a "git fetch" sometimes updated "something".

Ciao
  Chris
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