From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87a94j3wqe.fsf@igel.home> References: <20141026001610.GK312818@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net To: Scott Johnson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 26 12:18:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XiLqL-00041a-Iq for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751400AbaJZLSh (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:18:37 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:46785 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049AbaJZLSg (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:18:36 -0400 Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jQcB26sZPz3hjGk; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jQcB22fjdzvh1t; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c3wXjRc7TCU4; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:33 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 3h7PMF8mfXP7eP80gqyrQBVGaPCCtBV2MM9XyA5kobVIO7UjGLknBcZKwLNDC25M Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-158-8.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.158.8]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 32BD82C19C5; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:33 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!! In-Reply-To: (Scott Johnson's message of "Sun, 26 Oct 2014 02:57:45 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Scott Johnson writes: > Do you think there would be any interest in a patch that added this as > a simple command line option, though? I guess the idea of this patch > then would simply change this line in the .git/config file for the > length of the operation (and specified remote), execute the git pull > command, and then reset the configuration after the command finished. There is no need to modify the configuration, you can pass the fetch spec on the command line. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."