From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:57:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/23] t5510: prepare test refs more straightforwardly Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1383111192-23780-3-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Michael Haggerty wrote: > "git fetch" was being used with contrived refspecs to create tags and > remote-tracking branches in test repositories in preparation for the > actual tests. This is obscure and also makes one wonder whether this > is indeed just preparation or whether some side-effect of "git fetch" > is being tested. As the test titles indicate, we are exercising the 'fetch --prune' functionality. However, I don't see the 'git fetch :' form exercised anywhere else in the file.