Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > W dniu 2014-11-08 11:52, Jeff King pisze: >> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0100, Christian Halstrick wrote: >> >>> In a repo where no remote.<name>.fetch config parameter is set what >>> should a "git fetch" do? My experiments let me think it's >>> "HEAD:FETCH_HEAD". Right? >> >> Basically, yes. We always write FETCH_HEAD, regardless of the refspec. >> We choose "HEAD" if no other refspec was provided. So it is really more >> like >> >> git fetch $remote HEAD >> >> This is what makes one-off bare-url pulls work, like: >> >> git pull git://... >> >> It runs fetch under the hood, which writes into FETCH_HEAD, and then we >> merge that. > > Actually FETCH_HEAD consists of multiple lines, one per ref... > but only top ref is merged. Incorrect in that "only top" is misinformation, and irrelevant in the context of discussing the "what is fetched in a one-off fetch". -- 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