Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote

[Scott Johnson <jaywir3@gmail.com>]

Hi Brian:

> [remote "origin"]
>   fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

Yes, you're right, this works just fine as long as I move out from a
branch that's not in the remote in question, for example by doing:

git checkout -b nothing
git fetch

- OR -

git pull

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 really wouldn't be a need to affect the configuration on the
filesystem - simply the effective configuration used while git is
running for this operation).

Thanks,

~Scott