# [PATCH] git-fetch: Understand the branch property remote="."

1 messages from 2006-10-15 to 2006-10-15. Participants: Santi Béjar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5932

## Santi Béjar, 2006-10-15 21:16

Subject: [PATCH] git-fetch: Understand the branch property remote="."
Message-ID: <87bqod9t4u.fsf@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bqod9t4u.fsf%40gmail.com

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It extends the branch property "remote" to understand that "." is the local
repository.

With this, for example, in git.git you could have:

[branch "next"]
  remote="."
  merge=master

so the default merge in the next branch is the master branch in the
local repository.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
---
 git-parse-remote.sh |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
index 679f73c..617d022 100755
--- a/git-parse-remote.sh
+++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
@@ -187,6 +187,15 @@ get_remote_refs_for_push () {
 }
 
 get_remote_refs_for_fetch () {
+	if [ "$#,$1" = "1,." ] ;
+	then
+	    curr_branch=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's|^refs/heads/||')
+	    branch_remote=$(git-repo-config --get "branch.$curr_branch.remote")
+	    if [ "$branch_remote" = "." ]
+	    then
+		set . $(git-repo-config --get-all "branch.${curr_branch}.merge")
+	    fi
+	fi
 	case "$#" in
 	0)
 	    die "internal error: get-remote-refs-for-fetch." ;;
-- 
1.4.3.rc2.ga442

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