Matthieu Moy wrote: > The man page for git-remote-helpers says: > > refspec <refspec> > [...] It is recommended that all importers providing the import > capability use this. > > I'm not sure I fully understand the rationale, but one difference > between refs/<remote name>/* and refs/remotes/<remote name> is that > refs/remotes/ is automatically updated by Git on push, while the private > namespace isn't (it only receives updates when importing). It's mostly to allow "git fetch" to avoid non fast-forward updates unless -f was used or the refspec starts with +. I always liked the idea of tweaking the fast-import stream format to allow the import to happen on no branch at all since it would avoid all these questions. Maybe another day. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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