From: "Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git fetch documentation
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:04:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj12rt13.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
Hello,
Regarding the git-fetch man page (IIUC, in pull-fetch-param.txt), in
particular the <refspec> explanation, I feel that two facts are missing:
- A '*' can be used both in src and dest, and it matches any name,
including subdirectories, but not partial names (i.e. refs/heads/foo*
is invalid).
- multiple fetch lines can be given in .git/config, each of them will be
obeyed
These are probably obvious for most users, but I think documenting them
would be good for newcomers. (I tried to come up with a patch but I
can't find a precise yet concise way to explain the role of '*' in
english.)
--
Nico.
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2013-06-01 11:04 Nicolas Richard [this message]
2013-06-01 11:25 ` git fetch documentation Ramkumar Ramachandra
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