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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Scott Johnson <jaywir3@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net
Subject: Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:18:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a94j3wqe.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEFop40qOPaq-6QrvNR0_MsgTv4K0jDNqb+m=BUZzFSXQ35YSQ@mail.gmail.com> (Scott Johnson's message of "Sun, 26 Oct 2014 02:57:45 -0700")

Scott Johnson <jaywir3@gmail.com> writes:

> Do you think there would be any interest in a patch that added this as
> a simple command line option, though? I guess the idea of this patch
> then would simply change this line in the .git/config file for the
> length of the operation (and specified remote), execute the git pull
> command, and then reset the configuration after the command finished.

There is no need to modify the configuration, you can pass the fetch
spec on the command line.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-26 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 23:34 Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote Scott Johnson
2014-10-26  0:16 ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-26  9:57   ` Scott Johnson
2014-10-26 11:18     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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