Re: should git maintenance prefetch be taught to honor remote.fetch refspec?

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 4/5/2021 4:50 PM, Tom Saeger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:49:29PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>> On 4/5/2021 4:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> $ git config --local --get-regexp "pr-924"
>>>> remote.pr-924.url https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git
>>>> remote.pr-924.fetch +refs/tags/pr-924/derrickstolee/maintenance/refspec-v1
>>>>
>>>> Seems legal, fetch even works
>>>
>>> Yes.  For a ref that is one-shot use (like PR tags), this does not
>>> make much sense, but
>>>
>>>     [remote "submaintainer1"]
>>> 	url = ... repository of submaintainer #1 ...
>>> 	fetch = master
>>> 	tagopts = --no-tags
>>>
>>> is a reasonable thing to have for those who regularly work with
>>> submaintainer(s) of their project.  They'd do
>>>
>>> 	$ git pull submaintainer1
>>>
>>> to accept the work their submaintainers have done.
>>
>> Thanks for the extra testing! I'll be sure to fix this bug in v2.
>>
>> -Stolee
>>  
> 
> Hacked this:
>
> @@ -920,6 +927,10 @@ static int fetch_remote(struct remote *remote, void *cbdata)
>                 refspec_item_clear(&replace);
>         }
> 
> +       /* skip remote if no refspecs to fetch */
> +       if (child.args.nr <= nargs)
> +               return 0;
> +

This is a good approach, but we'll need to clean up the data in
'child' since run_command() no longer does it for us.

>         return !!run_command(&child);

Thanks,
-Stolee