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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: git fetch over ssh trouble
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:23:56 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:10:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> 
> >> I wonder what should happen when you do not have anything
> >> defined for "linus-nfs" shorthand.
> >
> > Oops; I didn't notice that!
> >
> >> Should it fetch HEAD?
> >
> > In my case I'd want it to either default to what I actually wanted
> > (+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/*), or just fail with something
> > helpful:
> >
> > 	"Nothing to fetch"?
> > 	"No refspec given, and no default fetch configured for linux-nfs"?
> > 	"What do you want me to fetch?"?
> >
> > I don't know.
> 
> Saying "let's grab everything" is certainly tempting, but I
> think it is a bit too much.

Yeah.

> How about doing this instead, then?

Works for me, thanks!

bfields@pickle:git$ git fetch linux-nfs
Password:
Nothing specified for fetching with remote.linux-nfs.fetch
Password:

Oh, OK, the password requests are a little excessive.  I should go
generate an ssh key.

--b.