From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Per-remote tracking branch
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:35:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090924113537.GA14113@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090924112550.GA6540@atjola.homenet>
On 2009.09.24 13:25:50 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2009.09.15 17:29:58 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > At the moment, I can configure a tracking branch to let me just type
> >
> > $ git pull
> >
> > when I want to say
> >
> > $ git pull origin master
> >
> > Now, assume I have another remote "foo", I'd like to be able to just
> > say
> >
> > $ git pull foo
> >
> > and put something in my .git/config so that Git knows I mean
> >
> > $ git pull foo master
> >
> > Is there a simple way to do that?
>
> Setup "foo" so that it fetches "master" only, i.e. have
> remote.foo.fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/foo/master
>
> You get that setup with: git remote add -t master foo git://...
>
> Then there's only one possible choice for "git pull", and it will take
> that.
Ah, crap, spoke too soon. That works only when branch.<name>.merge is
not set. Though that's not that much of a problem. When your "primary"
remote (the one set for branch.<name>.remote) also fetches just a single
branch, "git pull" will still work, even if branch.<name>.merge is not
set.
Björn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 15:29 Per-remote tracking branch Matthieu Moy
2009-09-24 6:29 ` Jeff King
2009-09-24 11:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-24 11:25 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-24 11:35 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-09-24 16:00 ` Matthieu Moy
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