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Subject: Re: [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:05:54 -0500
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On 01/31/2011 04:44 PM, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Proposal:
>
> Running "git fetch origin master" only updates FETCH_HEAD, not
> origin/master, which turns out to be quite confusing for newcomers
> especially after running 'git pull origin master'.
>
> Since the remote branches in some sense reflect the "last known state"
> of the remote, it would make sense to also update them to whatever a
> two-argument fetch got.
>

If this is proposing to break:

	get-fetch ${REPO} ${SRC_REF}:${DST_REF}

then I am against this since that form _is_ used and *is* plumbing.