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From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:15:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <826.67287.qm@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzz9usyp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net> wrote:
> 
> Because [remote] is NOT about mapping.  It asks the fetch
> mechanism to fetch from that remote, so the primary thing you
> should look at is .url, not RHS of colon on .fetch lines.  Use
> of tracking branches is strictly optional.

Remote
------

Please help me understand.  Here is a sample remote from
an actual repo (actual names changed):

[remote "origin"]
        url = http://blah/bleah.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

This basically says: "Get it" from such and such url, where
on the repo at that url, i.e. the remote side, you will
find stuff in "refs/heads/", and when you get it here, locally,
put it in refs/remotes/origin/.

Now if this isn't a mapping, then please can someone
explain to me what a "mapping" is?

The "fetch = <remote>:<local>" is inherently a mapping,
its syntax dictates it, as does the actual actions
it performs: "fetch" from "remote" and "put in local <local>".

Branch
------

Here is an actual example:

[branch "branchA"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/branchA

Yeah, but by default "refs/heads/branchA" doesn't exist (see
my previous email).  It doesn't have to, since it specifies
the "remote part", but that has already been handled by
"[remote]".

Unless of course "[branch "..."]" specifies the _remote_ branch
being tracked in refs/remotes/origin.  Is this the case.

Does "[branch]" apply to local branches too?  If so,
then what happens when refs/heads/branchA does exist and is
the same as the one it describes -- i.e. completely old behavior.

Thanks,
    Luben

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-31 23:47 [PATCH] Docs: update cvs-migration.txt to reflect clone's new default behavior bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-clone.txt for " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47   ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47     ` [PATCH] Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin" bfields
2006-12-31 23:47       ` [PATCH] Documentation: remove master:origin example from pull-fetch-param.txt bfields
2006-12-31 23:47         ` [PATCH] Documentation: update tutorial's discussion of origin bfields
2007-01-01  0:35     ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01  1:12       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01  1:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01  3:29         ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01  3:48           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01  5:13             ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01  5:45               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01  7:53                 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01  7:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01  8:19                 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 13:17                   ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-01 23:56                     ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  1:08                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02  2:17                         ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  3:45                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 18:39                         ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 21:39         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 21:40           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02  0:01             ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  0:10               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02  0:57                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02  1:28                 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  6:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02  2:09                 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  0:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02  0:38                 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02  2:05                 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  3:36                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 11:31                     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 18:48                     ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 19:22                       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 19:30                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:15                         ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2007-01-05 23:20                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:32                             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-06  0:32                               ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06  0:22                             ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06  1:17                               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 23:59           ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02  0:06             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02  0:12               ` Junio C Hamano

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