From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raible Subject: Re: Question regarding git fetch Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1251387045053-3527289.post@n2.nabble.com> <32541b130908270836m50553ccatddf4c870eec54ddb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 27 18:22:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mghjl-0007KH-RL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:22:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752846AbZH0QWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751966AbZH0QWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:22:00 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33975 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751249AbZH0QV7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:21:59 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mghjc-0007IT-4A for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:22:00 +0200 Received: from dsl-63-249-112-73.static.cruzio.com ([63.249.112.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:22:00 +0200 Received: from raible by dsl-63-249-112-73.static.cruzio.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:22:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 63.249.112.73 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Avery Pennarun gmail.com> writes: > Git currently promises that your refs/remotes/* branches will > never be updated unless you explicitly request it, even if you're > fetching, merging, and pulling other stuff. So your claim is that "git fetch central" is somehow more explicit than "git fetch central master"? I understand that "git fetch central" will use remote.central.fetch (which _is_ explicit), but the command itself is certainly _less_ explicit about specifying the remote branch. Either way, AFAICT it seems purely historical that "git fetch central master" doesn't update remotes/central. - Eric