Re: [PATCH v4] remote: allow specifying refs to prefetch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2024, 08:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo72spyco.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZysSEJUqSKUq4PKb@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> So yes, we'd have to teach Git to ignore "*" remotes in many places. I
> would hope that it isn't all that involved and that we only need to
> adjust a couple of places to ignore "*". But the remote logic is
> somewhat outside of my area of expertise, so my hope might be misplaced.

I am hoping that it would not be too painful to exclude '*' from enumeration, and also, "git fetch '*'" and other things that expect the name of a remote do not say silly things like "ah, there is "remote.*.<something>" configuration defined, so '*' must be a name of a remote" ;-)

It might take certain refactoring, but if it results in a cleaner codebase, that is also a welcome outcome.

Thanks.