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| author |  Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> | 2007-09-10 23:03:25 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-19 03:22:30 -0700 |
| commit | b888d61c8308027433df9c243fa551f42db1c76a (patch) | |
| tree | 94459873b07253fce86f467af8347f1a2d74f140 /Documentation | |
| parent | Add bundle transport (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b888d61c8308027433df9c243fa551f42db1c76a.tar.xz | |
Make fetch a builtin
Thanks to Johannes Schindelin for review and fixes, and Julian
Phillips for the original C translation.
This changes a few small bits of behavior:
branch.<name>.merge is parsed as if it were the lhs of a fetch
refspec, and does not have to exactly match the actual lhs of a
refspec, so long as it is a valid abbreviation for the same ref.
branch.<name>.merge is no longer ignored if the remote is configured
with a branches/* file. Neither behavior is useful, because there can
only be one ref that gets fetched, but this is more consistant.
Also, fetch prints different information to standard out.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 015910f27a..518acc6194 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -324,10 +324,11 @@ branch.<name>.remote:: If this option is not given, `git fetch` defaults to remote "origin". branch.<name>.merge:: - When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` the default refspec to - be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value has exactly to match - a remote part of one of the refspecs which are fetched from the remote - given by "branch.<name>.remote". + When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` the default + refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is + handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a + ref which is fetched from the remote given by + "branch.<name>.remote". The merge information is used by `git pull` (which at first calls `git fetch`) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. |