From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:27:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] fetch: infer branches to fetch from a refmap-only remote
Message-ID: <CAHwyqnX2O1e+f6qss5+AL3f-Q-PHQmZjbayiph2cQiQGDjSAkA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45b26e2bb292f31eb36d88e2fcf8801eb8313374.1790673598.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

> +test_expect_success 'a bare fetch needs nothing until a branch is tracked' '
> +       (
> +               cd client &&
> +               git fetch upstream &&
> +               git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/remotes/upstream >actual &&
> +               test_must_be_empty actual
> +       )
> +'

I still don't think it makes sense that bare 'git fetch upstream'
doesn't fetch the HEAD branch to then allow me to do

    git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream

But maybe that's for another topic.


Harald