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Ben Knoble" , Harald Nordgren Avoid fetching every branch of a new remote in a shallow repo. Changes in v5: * Renumber test file from t5585 to t5586. Changes in v4: * Removed the automatic default-branch fetch. A fresh remote fetches nothing until you track a branch explicitly. * Fixed fetch report showing "new ref HEAD" instead of "new branch " * Reworded remote..refmap docs and commit message. Changes in v3: * Replace the special ":"/"+:" fetch refspec with remote..refmap, reusing git's existing --refmap mechanism instead of inventing new refspec syntax. * Split the change into 4 commits. Changes in v2: * Replaced the opt-in fetch.shallow config entirely with a new special fetch refspec (+:) that git remote add now defaults new remotes to in a shallow repository. The new refspec fetches whichever branches any local branch tracks at that remote, plus the remote's default branch. Harald Nordgren (4): fetch: add remote..refmap fetch: infer branches to fetch from a refmap-only remote remote: add "git remote add --limited-fetch" remote: default to --limited-fetch in a shallow repository Documentation/config/remote.adoc | 8 +++ Documentation/fetch-options.adoc | 5 ++ Documentation/git-remote.adoc | 14 +++- builtin/fetch.c | 60 +++++++++++++--- builtin/remote.c | 31 ++++++-- remote.c | 41 ++++++++++- remote.h | 9 +++ t/meson.build | 1 + t/t5505-remote.sh | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++ t/t5510-fetch.sh | 17 +++++ t/t5586-fetch-refmap.sh | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t5586-fetch-refmap.sh base-commit: a018953688f1b10bddf91bff8747068f5f4746a4 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2412%2FHaraldNordgren%2Ffetch-shallow-narrow-refspec-v5 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2412/HaraldNordgren/fetch-shallow-narrow-refspec-v5 Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2412 Range-diff vs v4: 1: d48a7004e4 = 1: d48a7004e4 fetch: add remote..refmap 2: 45b26e2bb2 ! 2: fecdbc43b8 fetch: infer branches to fetch from a refmap-only remote @@ t/meson.build: integration_tests = [ 't5582-fetch-negative-refspec.sh', 't5583-push-branches.sh', 't5584-http-429-retry.sh', -+ 't5585-fetch-refmap.sh', ++ 't5586-fetch-refmap.sh', 't5600-clone-fail-cleanup.sh', 't5601-clone.sh', 't5602-clone-remote-exec.sh', - ## t/t5585-fetch-refmap.sh (new) ## + ## t/t5586-fetch-refmap.sh (new) ## @@ +#!/bin/sh + 3: e2f072c254 = 3: b45f3cf0ab remote: add "git remote add --limited-fetch" 4: 43b9711a2c = 4: 8c2a144eb7 remote: default to --limited-fetch in a shallow repository -- gitgitgadget