On 14-06-04 06:28 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Marc Branchaud <mbranchaud@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Teach the command to pay attention to the --refmap=<lhs>:<rhs> >>> command-line options that can be used to override the use of >>> configured remote.*.fetch as the refmap. >> >> (Your 0/9 message merely said "The new patches at the >> end clarifies how remote.*.fetch configuration variables are used in >> two conceptually different ways." so I was not expecting fetch to get a new >> option.) > > This is more about conceptual consistency & completeness than new > and useful addition, in that configured values and the feature they > enable ought to be expressible and overridable from the command line > options but we so far lacked a way to trigger the "do not affect > what gets fetched, only affect where they go locally" feature, which > is offered by the second way to use remote.*.fetch variable. I do > not think we absolutely need it and that is why it is at the end as > an optional addition. Ah, OK. I don't have any objection to the option per se. But I do wonder if there's a need to add yet another knob to git just for completeness. Has anyone ever needed this? M. -- 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