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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git fetch workflow improvements
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:00:12 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:20:29PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > $ git remote update
> 
> BTW, is the following normal?
> 
> $ git remote update origin
> Remote group origin does not exists.
> 
> (there *is* an origin remote)

Straight from the man page:

-- snip --
'update'::

Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by
remotes.<group>.  If a named group is not specified on the command line,
the configuration parameter remotes.default will get used; if
remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not have the
configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will
be updated.  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
-- snap --

To spare you the hassle from looking up the relevant section in 
git-config.1:

-- snip --
remotes.<group>::
        The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
        <group>".  See linkgit:git-remote[1].
-- snap --

So if you add a group to your config file, like

	[remotes]
		origin = origin kernelorg repoorcz

your

	$ git remote update origin

will succeed.

Hth,
Dscho