From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local option
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=OTBVauqpxZO5br5zRy8D_o3DzgLfaDRVx9Y_EVm19qA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1368689474-28911-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> So that it becomes possible to override the behavior when the remote
> tracked is '.'; if it is, we default back to 'origin'.

What is the problem you're trying to solve?  Why do you have
branch.<name>.remote set to '.' in the first place, if you meant
origin?  'git fetch .' currently just updates FETCH_HEAD; while I'm
not sure how that is useful, I still don't understand _why_ you want
to change that behavior.