Re: [RFC/PATCH] remote: add new sync command

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps these 'git remote' commands should be removed in 1.8 then.
>>> 
>>> It is true that it was a long-term goal to deprecate many parts of the
>>> "git remote" script that started as a hack to scratch itches "git fetch"
>>> in the older days did not directly scratch for people, e.g. fetching from
>>> multiple remotes in one go.
>>> 
>>> I do not think 1.7.X series to 1.8 is a big enough jump to remove
>>> duplicated features, though.
>>  
>> I am using "git remote update" to fetch a _subset_ of remotes;
>> does "git fetch" offers such feature already?
> 
> Heh, look at builtin/remote.c::update() and report what you see.  It just
> calls into "git fetch" and let the command fetch either from a single
> repository or from a remote group. "git remote update" is not even aware
> of the remote groups; the expansion is done by "git fetch".
> 
> Whoever added "multiple repositories" feature to "git fetch" in order to
> support "remote update <group>" apparently under-documented it.

Well, it is documented in git-fetch(1), though in slightly piecemeal
fashion.

One difference is that "git remote update" defaults to "default" group
if it is defined, and to "--all" if it isn't.  With "git fetch --multiple"
you have to specify it explicitly ("git fetch --multiple" is a no-op,
I think).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland