Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-fetch: Only fetch in fetch

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/25/07, Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>    I've tried to separate the fetch and merge logic. At the same time it
>>    has removed 40 lines of code to the git-*.sh.
>
> Just some words for the basic idea.
>
> git-fetch: fetches the branches from the remote and save this
> information in .git/FETCH_HEAD. In .git/FETCH_REMOTE it save
> additional information, as the remote nick, the remote url, the
> refspec used and the default remote.
>
> git-pull: uses this information to select the branches to merge and
> save them in .git/FETCH_MERGE.

One thing I suspect is problematic is that this would make
fmt-merge-message much less useful after running git-fetch.  You
have to go all the way to git-pull and replace reading from
FETCH_HEAD with reading from FETCH_MERGE (just like you had to
do that in git-pull).  In other words, this may break people's
scripts and workflows.

This is probably a good clean-up at the conceptual level.  If
you had done this before v1.0.0 there would have been no
question about its inclusion.

Please discuss this patch post 1.5.0.