Re: Question regarding git fetch

[Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>]

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Git currently promises that your refs/remotes/* branches will
> never be updated unless you explicitly request it, even if you're
> fetching, merging, and pulling other stuff.

So your claim is that "git fetch central" is somehow more
explicit than "git fetch central master"?

I understand that "git fetch central" will use
remote.central.fetch (which _is_ explicit), but
the command itself is certainly _less_ explicit about
specifying the remote branch.

Either way, AFAICT it seems purely historical that
"git fetch central master" doesn't update remotes/central.

- Eric