From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:00:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Per-remote tracking branch
Message-ID: <vpqskec5o54.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20090924113537.GA14113@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:

>> Setup "foo" so that it fetches "master" only, i.e. have
>> remote.foo.fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/foo/master
>> 
>> You get that setup with: git remote add -t master foo git://...
>> 
>> Then there's only one possible choice for "git pull", and it will take
>> that.
>
> Ah, crap, spoke too soon. That works only when branch.<name>.merge is
> not set. Though that's not that much of a problem. When your "primary"
> remote (the one set for branch.<name>.remote) also fetches just a single
> branch, "git pull" will still work, even if branch.<name>.merge is not
> set.

Yes, that's it. Thanks for your anwser, it works.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/