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Teach git-remote add to fetch and track
This adds three options to 'git-remote add'. * -f (or --fetch) option tells it to also run the initial "git fetch" using the newly created remote shorthand. * -t (or --track) option tells it not to use the default wildcard to track all branches. * -m (or --master) option tells it to make the remote/$name/HEAD point at a remote tracking branch other than master. For example, with this I can say: $ git remote add -f -t master -t quick-start -m master \ jbf-um git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git/ to (1) create remote.jbf-um.url; (2) track master and quick-start branches (and no other); the two -t options create these two lines: fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/jbf-um/master fetch = +refs/heads/quick-start:refs/remotes/jbf-um/quick-start (3) set up remotes/jbf-um/HEAD to point at jbf-um/master so that later I can say "git log jbf-um" Or I could do $ git remote add -t 'ap/*' andy /home/andy/git.git to make Andy's topic branches kept track of under refs/remotes/andy/ap/. Other possible improvements I considered but haven't implemented (hint, hint) are: * reject wildcard letters other than a trailing '*' to the -t parameter; * make -m optional and when the first -t parameter does not have the trailing '*' default to that value (so the above example does not need to say "-m master"); * if -m is not given, and -t parameter ends with '*' (i.e. the above defaulting did not tell us where to point HEAD at), and if we did the fetch with -f, check if 'master' was fetched and make HEAD point at it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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