From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:45:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Be more careful when determining whether a remote was configured
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In-Reply-To: <20170119213100.g72ml7r2khu7bvey@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm trying to figure out why "fetch --multiple" wouldn't just take a url
> in the first place. I guess it is because multiple fetch is useless
> without refspecs (since otherwise you're just writing to FETCH_HEAD,
> which gets immediately overwritten).

This is probably a tangent, if FETCH_HEAD is overwritten, wouldn't
that be a bug in the implementation of --multiple?  I somehow
thought we had an option to tell second and subsequent "fetch" to
append to FETCH_HEAD instead of overwriting it.