From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:41:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7vu00ysbwi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <87velgs9hx.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87psbos4pb.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20061115230252.GH24861@spearce.org> <87fycjs5yg.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87r6w3b68p.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Michael K. Edwards" , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <87r6w3b68p.wl%cworth@cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:23:34 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkzI5-0005t9-O8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755509AbWKQIlf (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:41:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755556AbWKQIlf (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:41:35 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]:13987 "EHLO fed1rmmtao12.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755509AbWKQIle (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:41:34 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061117084134.CKAX21630.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:41:34 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id nkhg1V00P1kojtg0000000; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:41:41 -0500 To: Carl Worth Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Carl Worth writes: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:57:00 -0800, "Michael K. Edwards" wrote: >> What do you want all of those branches for? They haven't been >> published to you (that's a human interaction that doesn't go through >> git), so for all you know they're just upstream experiments, and doing >> things with them is probably shooting yourself in the foot. > > The same "what do you want them all for" question could be asked of > git-clone which also fetches all available branches. I really just > want to be able to easily watch what's going on in multiple > repositories. > > I want to be able to just say "git update" (or whatever) and then be > able to list and browse and explore the stuff locally. >... I have no objection to this if it is done in a controlled way that does not make life more difficult for people who work with multiple remote repositories. And I think "git fetch" is the tool for what you want if enhanced properly; see Linus's message that explaind that we already have that support in "manually configurable" form but initializing and maintaining the configuration is currently all manual and can be improved.