On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:57:00 -0800, "Michael K. Edwards" wrote: > What do you want all of those branches for? They haven't been > published to you (that's a human interaction that doesn't go through > git), so for all you know they're just upstream experiments, and doing > things with them is probably shooting yourself in the foot. The same "what do you want them all for" question could be asked of git-clone which also fetches all available branches. I really just want to be able to easily watch what's going on in multiple repositories. I want to be able to just say "git update" (or whatever) and then be able to list and browse and explore the stuff locally. Yes, there's still outside communication that's necessary, but with the ability to easily track all the remote branches that communication can be even less formal if I can easily browse and explore things locally. For example, I might not even know the name of the branch: Me: Have you pushed a branch for your new work on the frob-widget? Friend: Yes And then I can "get fetch" and see "cool-new-frob" come in without having to be told that name. Or I could have even just fetched without the specific communication if I was already expecting it for some reason. -Carl
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