Karl Hasselstr?m <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2006-11-12 20:49:33 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > After finding out $that_new_branch's name, add either > > > > Pull: refs/heads/$that_new_branch:refs/heads/$that_new_branch > > > > or if you are in "separate remote" school, then perhaps > > > > Pull: refs/heads/$that_new_branch:refs/remotes/origin/$that_new_branch > > > > to .git/remotes/origin and running git fetch would give you what you > > want, I think. > > There really should be a flag to make git fetch do this job. And if we > use separate remotes, the flag should probably default to "on". And also to automatically stop fetching any branch which is no longer listed on the remote system, rather than reporting a "Fetch failure". I probably would keep the local ref (they are cheap) just in case the user was counting on that branch and then the remote system pulled the rug out from under them. :-) -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html