Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

Jeff Garzik
2006-02-26T08:39:50Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
>>ObGit: is there any way to fetch _all_ branches from remote, creating local
>>branches with the same names if they didn't exist yet? Ot, at least, get
>>the full list of branches existing in the remote repository...
>
>
> The magic is "git-ls-remote". In particular, the "--heads" flag limits it
> to just showing branch heads.
>
> Then you can feed that into "git fetch", which takes the format
> "localname:remotename" to tell it how to fetch.
>
> In other words, something like
>
> git fetch remote $(git ls-remote --heads remote | awk '{print $2":"$2}')
>
> should do what you asked for.

Any chance we could get 'git fetch --heads' ?

FWIW, I regularly blow away and create new heads, so the above is rather
long for people who use my repos. A lot of them use rsync because when
you're tracking a repo with ever-changing branches, 'git pull' doesn't
really approximate "make local X look like remote X".

Jeff