Re: should git maintenance prefetch be taught to honor remote.fetch refspec?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2021, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5z105uia.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20210405203832.x275fqoinfsw5gik@dhcp-10-154-153-195.vpn.oracle.com>

Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> writes:

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> $ git config --local --get-regexp "pr-924"
> remote.pr-924.url https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git
> remote.pr-924.fetch +refs/tags/pr-924/derrickstolee/maintenance/refspec-v1
>
> Seems legal, fetch even works

Yes. For a ref that is one-shot use (like PR tags), this does not make much sense, but

    [remote "submaintainer1"]
	url = ... repository of submaintainer #1 ...
	fetch = master
	tagopts = --no-tags

is a reasonable thing to have for those who regularly work with submaintainer(s) of their project. They'd do

	$ git pull submaintainer1

to accept the work their submaintainers have done.