From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: branch.pu.forcefetch Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:31:59 -0500 Message-ID: <1167251519.2247.10.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 27 21:32:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzfRY-0007Lm-G5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:32:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754739AbWL0UcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:32:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754721AbWL0UcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:32:04 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:44057 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754739AbWL0UcD (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:32:03 -0500 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GzfRG-00087j-CX for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:31:50 -0500 Received: from proski by gnu.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GzfRQ-0001o7-0y for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:32:00 -0500 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello! I'm testing the current git from the master branch, and I like the idea of moving the remotes to the config file, but I think there is a significant omission in the new syntax. There is no way to specify that some branches are fast forward. For example, I clone the git repository anew, and I try to update it by git-fetch a few days later. I get an error: * refs/remotes/origin/pu: not updating to non-fast forward branch 'pu' of git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git It would be great to have a "non-fastforward" option in the config file for every branch. I'm thinking about something like: [branch "pu"] forcefetch = 1 It would be even better to initialize such option while cloning. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin