Re: [PATCH] git-completion: offer remotes for 'git remote update'

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On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:47:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Auke Schrijnen <auke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Completion for 'git remote update' only offers configured remote
groups.

I have this suspicion that it might even be a feature. I am a bad person
to make the judgement, as I do not use the "grouping" feature at all.

If you throw in individual remotes that are not grouped in the mix, the
users of "git remote update" auto-completion, who have been happily
relying on seeing only the configured groups, suddenly will start seeing many individual repositories offered, cluttering the available choices.
Besides, if you want to fetch from a single source, why not use "git
fetch" directly?

Back when "git fetch" didn't allow fetching from multiple repositories in one go, "remote update" was written as a wrapper for the explicit purpose of fetching from more than one remote by defining remote groups. Since
late 2009, "git fetch" can update from multiple remotes itself, and I
suspect "git remote update" outlived its usefulness in some sense, but
that is a tangent.

I see your point and obviously i'm also not using the grouping feature. I could just use git fetch but i'm so used to type 'git remote update'... So i'll cook another patch.

Auke
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