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From: Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is the default refspec for fetch?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:01:12 +0100
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ok, thanks. Then I'll teach JGit to fetch at least "HEAD" if nothing
is configured and nothing explicitly specified as refspec.
Ciao
  Chris


On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:
> Jakub Nar=EAbski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> W dniu 2014-11-08 11:52, Jeff King pisze:
>>> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0100, Christian Halstrick wrote=
:
>>>
>>>> In a repo where no remote.<name>.fetch config parameter is set wha=
t
>>>> should a "git fetch" do? My experiments let me think it's
>>>> "HEAD:FETCH_HEAD". Right?
>>>
>>> Basically, yes. We always write FETCH_HEAD, regardless of the refsp=
ec.
>>> We choose "HEAD" if no other refspec was provided. So it is really =
more
>>> like
>>>
>>>    git fetch $remote HEAD
>>>
>>> This is what makes one-off bare-url pulls work, like:
>>>
>>>    git pull git://...
>>>
>>> It runs fetch under the hood, which writes into FETCH_HEAD, and the=
n we
>>> merge that.
>>
>> Actually FETCH_HEAD consists of multiple lines, one per ref...
>> but only top ref is merged.
>
> Incorrect in that "only top" is misinformation, and irrelevant in
> the context of discussing the "what is fetched in a one-off fetch".