On Tuesday 17 July 2012 16:02:12 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Achleitner wrote: > > So we want the transport-helper to touch only private refs, i.e. some > > subdir of refs/, ok. > > On the other hand I thought we expect git-fetch to update the RHS of the > > passed refspec (or the default one ). How? > > Now I am getting confused by terminology. By "the transport-helper" > do you mean the remote helper (e.g., git-remote-svn) or > transport-helper.c? I was confused too. It should say remote-helper. > > By the "default" refspec do you mean the one specified in .git/config > or some default when none is specified there? "git fetch" updates > refs according to the specified fetch refspec in > builtin/fetch.c::store_updated_refs(). .. and I didn't realize that the two different refspecs involved here can be different and shall be different because they get post-processed accordingly. I thought the remote-helper has to import according to the fetch refspec. > > > Btw, whats FETCH_HEAD for? > > "grep FETCH_HEAD Documentation/*.txt" gives some hints. Most notably: > > git-fetch(1) > ------------ > The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored > in ".git/FETCH_HEAD". This information is left for a later merge > operation done by 'git merge'. > > gittutorial(7) > -------------- > Alice can peek at what Bob did without merging first, using the "fetch" > command; this allows Alice to inspect what Bob did, using a special > symbol "FETCH_HEAD", in order to determine if he has anything worth > pulling, like this: > > ------------------------------------------------ > alice$ git fetch /home/bob/myrepo master > alice$ git log -p HEAD..FETCH_HEAD > ------------------------------------------------ > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan Thanks, Florian -- 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