From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local option
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1SWORAzBP-WO_Xc62F=YFckgU4knLyse0DSDRW33crZA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=OTBVauqpxZO5br5zRy8D_o3DzgLfaDRVx9Y_EVm19qA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

% git checkout -t -b devel master

-- 
Felipe Contreras