Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] remote: add "git remote add --limited-fetch"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
>
> A remote added the ordinary way tracks every branch it has, via a
> wildcard remote.<name>.fetch refspec. That is wasteful for a remote
> whose history is only worth following for the branches actually in
> use locally, and it can make "git fetch" negotiate history for
> branches nobody asked for.
>
> Give "git remote add" a --limited-fetch option that sets up
> remote.<name>.refmap instead of remote.<name>.fetch, so that
> "git fetch <name>" only fetches the branches already tracked, as
> described in the previous commit. It is rejected together with
> -t/--track or --mirror, since those already say explicitly what to
> fetch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-remote.adoc |  8 +++++++-
>  builtin/remote.c              | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  t/t5505-remote.sh             | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

This step looks quite straight-forward and nicely done.  I didn't
look at the tests, though.