Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 07 2021, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>
>> The purpose is to allow us to modify a 'struct refspec_item'
>> andproduce a refspec string instead of munging a refspec string
>> directly.
Ouch. I thought the goal was to take
[remote "origin"]
fetch = $src:$dst
let the code that is used in the actual fetching to parse it into
the in-core "refspec_item", and then transform the refspec_item by
- discarding it if the item does not result in storing in the real
fetch
- tweaking $dst side so that it won't touch anywhere outside
refs/prefetch/ to avoid disturbing end-user's notion of what the
latest state of the remote ref is.
so that the "parsed" refspec_item is passed to the fetch machinery
without ever having to be converted back to textual form.
Why do we even need to "andproduce a refspec string"?
