Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] clone: respect configured fetch respecs during initial fetch

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 01:05:53PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> This is a reroll of sg/clone-refspec-from-command-line-config.
> Sorry for the delay, family visit.

No problem. Thanks for letting us know before it went to 'next'. ;)

> The first patch is the updated version of what is now the first commit
> of that topic.  The changes are those mentioned in [1]:
> 
>  - updated commit message,
>  - renamed 'refspec_count' to 'refspec_nr',

Good.

>  - use the parsed fetch refspecs returned by remote.c:remote_get()
>    instead of parsing them ourselves (look at the third hunk of the
>    diff of builtin/clone.c, how much shorter it looks),

Yeah, that is much nicer. It does feel a little dirty modifying
remote->fetch, though. I'll comment on the specific patch.

>  - modified tests to check that refs matching the default refspecs are
>    transferred as well, and
>  - added a test for the combination of '-c
>    remote.<remote>.fetch=<refspec> --origin=<name>'.

Sounds good.

> The second patch is a doc update to warn users that not all
> configuration variables are supported via 'git clone -c ...' at the
> moment.

Good idea.

> Patches 3 and 4 are the last two patches from Peff from this morning
> [2].  I picked those up, because his last patch required a bit of
> variable name adjustments.  I didn't pick up his first patch, because
> using remote_get() already factors out refspec parsing.

Makes sense. Thanks for including them.

-Peff