From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:21:16 -0700 Message-ID: <7vabk23esz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080409101428.GA2637@elte.hu> <20080409145758.GB20874@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20080409200836.GA19248@mithlond> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Teemu Likonen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 09 23:22:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjhkZ-00042E-Qz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:22:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756000AbYDIVVk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755997AbYDIVVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:21:39 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:56702 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753455AbYDIVVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:21:39 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68D5998; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:21:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CA23365; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 17:21:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080409200836.GA19248@mithlond> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:08:36 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Teemu Likonen writes: [By the way, please never redirect the response to your messages away from you with: Mail-Followup-To: Jeff King , Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org You wasted 30 seconds of my (and anybody who potentially wanted to give advice to you) time by forcing me fix the To: header while composing this response. I know Jeff understands what I am going to mention, and I do not want to waste his time by putting him on To: header.] > Currently "git fetch " does not seem to do anything useful for > non-git-hackers. It seems to fetch objects but not create any branches > referring to them. I'd suggest you to study: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31351/focus=31634 Not everybody wants remote tracking.