Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:34:30PM -0700, Scott Johnson wrote: > Hello git experts: > > Recently, I've encountered the problem where I would like to set my > local repository copy to track all branches on a given remote. There > does not appear to be a switch for this in the git-branch command > currently, however, I will admit that my somewhat limited > understanding of the git-branch manpage might be causing me simply not > to see it. I don't know about a command line option for this, but I think there's a way to achieve what you're looking for. > So, for example, if I were to run: > > git-branch --track-remote origin > > and I had two branches on origin, master and maint, respectively, > after the command finishes, my local repo would now have two branches, > master (set up to track origin/master), and maint (setup to track > origin/maint). You could do something like this in .git/config: [remote "origin"] fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* You won't be able to fetch if you would overwrite the current branch, though. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote
Hi Brian: > [remote "origin"] > fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* Yes, you're right, this works just fine as long as I move out from a branch that's not in the remote in question, for example by doing: git checkout -b nothing git fetch - OR - git pull Do you think there would be any interest in a patch that added this as a simple command line option, though? I guess the idea of this patch then would simply change this line in the .git/config file for the length of the operation (and specified remote), execute the git pull command, and then reset the configuration after the command finished. (There really wouldn't be a need to affect the configuration on the filesystem - simply the effective configuration used while git is running for this operation). Thanks, ~Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote
Scott Johnson writes: > Do you think there would be any interest in a patch that added this as > a simple command line option, though? I guess the idea of this patch > then would simply change this line in the .git/config file for the > length of the operation (and specified remote), execute the git pull > command, and then reset the configuration after the command finished. There is no need to modify the configuration, you can pass the fetch spec on the command line. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
