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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FETCH_HEAD files and mirrored repos
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:13:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk0z7nxs7.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79a56e7b-3c31-80c0-6a8b-807dcb4d5af3@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:09:29 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Am 12.07.20 um 22:52 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> We could teach "git fetch" a new "--write-fetch-head" option and
>> teach "git pull" to pass it when calling "git fetch".  It is very
>> plausible that some folks rely on "git fetch" to leave FETCH_HEAD
>> without being told, so the option must default to on for a few
>> development cycles before we flip the default to off,
>
> Nah, really??? It's one of the benefits of git-fetch that it writes
> FETCH_HEAD and the primary reason in many cases where I use the command!
> So, either I don't care that FETCH_HEAD is written, or I do use it. IMO,
> not wanting to write FETCH_HEAD is the odd case and would need a
> configuration tweak, not the other way round.

Yeah, that's even easier to arrange.  

Just the "--[no-]write-fetch-head" command line option and the
fetch.writeFetchHEAD configuration variable are introduced and left
off by default forever.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-13 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-11 20:48 FETCH_HEAD files and mirrored repos Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-11 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-11 21:19   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-12 17:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-12 20:25       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-12 20:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-12 21:54           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-13 17:09           ` Johannes Sixt
2020-07-13 17:13             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-07-13 18:06               ` [PATCH] fetch: optionally allow disabling FETCH_HEAD update Junio C Hamano
2020-07-13 19:08                 ` Taylor Blau
2020-07-13 19:45                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-13 20:00               ` FETCH_HEAD files and mirrored repos Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-13 20:04                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-13 20:22                   ` Jeff King
2020-07-13 20:34                     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-07-13 20:50                       ` Jeff King
2020-07-13 20:43                     ` Johannes Sixt
2020-07-14  4:11             ` Jonathan Nieder

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