From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:22:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eneb7b$ll7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 560316.34562.qm@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com
Luben Tuikov wrote:
> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> What is the reasonining of defining branch.<name>.merge to point
>>> to the "remote's setup"?
>>
>> See list archives.
>>
>> Because you are not required to use remote tracking branches.
>
> Then why does it point to the _remote_ mapping? One shouldn't
> care what it is, and how it looks in the remote repo. That is
> handled by [remote]. In [branch] I shouldn't have to have any
> absolute references, i.e. branch.<name>.remote points to [remote],
> and branch.<name>.merge should only give a _branch_ name,
> whose remote-to-local mapping (which preserves the branch name)
> can be found by dereferencing branch.<name>.remote to get to
> remote.<rname>.fetch.
Once again: if you _don't_ have _local_ tracking branch, so you _must_
use _remote_ name.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-31 23:47 [PATCH] Docs: update cvs-migration.txt to reflect clone's new default behavior bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-clone.txt for " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin" bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: remove master:origin example from pull-fetch-param.txt bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update tutorial's discussion of origin bfields
2007-01-01 0:35 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 1:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 1:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 3:29 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 3:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 5:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 5:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 7:53 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 8:19 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 13:17 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-01 23:56 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 2:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 3:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 18:39 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 21:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 21:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 1:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 6:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 2:09 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 0:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 2:05 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 11:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 18:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 19:22 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-02 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:15 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-05 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-06 0:32 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06 0:22 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 23:59 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
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