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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cloning a custom refspec does not work as expected
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 16:03:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170503200345.mjxvcv4o4wce3ddr@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuMUrNFv30d+pjheiCAikM89XshQTFuDXBzu+EcxNY_94w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:16:47PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> I'd assume that this would work:
> 
> $ git clone -c remote.origin.fetch=+refs/changes/*:refs/remotes/origin/changes/*
> https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
> 
> In fact, this *does* add the custom refs correct to .git/config, but
> they are not fetched during the clone. I can manually fix that by
> doing
> 
> $ cd git-repo
> $ git fetch
> 
> afterwards, but the whole point is to avoid exactly that separate step.
> 
> Is this a code bug or documentation bug?

I think it's a code bug. More discussion in:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/robbat2-20170225T185056-448272755Z@orbis-terrarum.net/

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-03 12:16 Cloning a custom refspec does not work as expected Sebastian Schuberth
2017-05-03 18:27 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-03 20:03 ` Jeff King [this message]

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