Re: "git pull REMOTE" question

[Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 00:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> So, how about extending the syntax for [branch $current_branch]
> section of the config like this?
> 
>  ;; traditional -- when on "master", use '[remote "origin"] url'
>  ;; and '[remote "origin"] fetch' to decide where to fetch from,
>  ;; and merge their refs/heads/master to our branch.
>  [branch "master"]
>  	remote = origin
>         merge = refs/heads/master
> 
>  ;; new -- when on "master', and the user says to pull from "usb"
>  ;; without saying which branch to merge, use '[remote "usb"] url'
>  ;; and '[remote "usb"] fetch' to decide where to fetch from,
>  ;; and merge their refs/heads/xprm to our branch.
>  [branch "master:usb"]
>  	merge = refs/heads/xprm
> 
> The trick in the new syntax is that you cannot have a colon in
> refname, so there is no way for existing [branch $name] section
> to crash with the new style definition.

Wasn't there was a brief alternate notion to add a "for <remote>"
clause and allowing something like this?:

    [branch "master"]
        merge = refs/heads/xprm for usb
        merge = refs/heads/stuff for otherremote

Thanks,
jdl