From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is the default refspec for fetch?
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 05:52:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141108105221.GA20750@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAENte7inZ5fm2SzNPq=HNPKnPco9tM4T_es5Dphnpbia-uiLdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0100, Christian Halstrick wrote:
> In a repo where no remote.<name>.fetch config parameter is set what
> should a "git fetch" do? My experiments let me think it's
> "HEAD:FETCH_HEAD". Right?
Basically, yes. We always write FETCH_HEAD, regardless of the refspec.
We choose "HEAD" if no other refspec was provided. So it is really more
like
git fetch $remote HEAD
This is what makes one-off bare-url pulls work, like:
git pull git://...
It runs fetch under the hood, which writes into FETCH_HEAD, and then we
merge that.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-08 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 15:31 What is the default refspec for fetch? Christian Halstrick
2014-11-08 10:52 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-11-08 14:35 ` Jakub Narębski
2014-11-09 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-11 23:01 ` Christian Halstrick
2014-11-11 23:04 ` Junio C Hamano
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