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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:49:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1wcoau0w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F7E2A5.6030202@eudaptics.com> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:33 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com> writes:

> Linus Torvalds schrieb:
>
>> ...
>> Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch?
>
> I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do:
>
>    $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init
>    $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master
>
> (where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get
> all the tags. Good or bad?

That's exactly Linus meant "fetching a tracking branch".  Your
refspec has non-empty string on the RHS of the colon.

	$ git fetch ../git master

is the form without tracking.  IOW, not storing into your refs
namespace.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-23 20:54 The msysGit Herald, issue 2 Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-24  2:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-24 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-24 16:15   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-09-24 16:32     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-24 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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