From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: when is a remote a branch?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:36:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611142136.17517.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061114202835.GJ7201@pasky.or.cz>
Petr "Pasky" Baudis wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:31:18PM CET, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> By the way, with introduction of branches and remotes in config file,
>> you can say:
>> [branch "localbranch"]
>> remote = someremote
>> [remote "someremote"]
>> fetch = remotebranch:localbranch
>> push = remotebranch:localbranch
>>
>> and that would be equivalent to example branches file from
>> the beginning of this email.
>
> According to the documentation, this is not really useful since this
> just tells what should git fetch default to when on branch
> "localbranch". But "localbranch" is still just a branch representing a
> state in a remote repository, so you should never be _on_ it in a sane
> setup, but instead on a different branch which tracks it.
Oh. Can you "git fetch Localbranch" _without_ repository named
"localbranch" in above case?
--
Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 15:50 when is a remote a branch? Anand Kumria
2006-11-12 16:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-12 16:36 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-12 17:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-14 20:28 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-14 20:36 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-11-14 20:44 ` Petr Baudis
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