[PATCH] Set up remotes/origin to track all remote branches.

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

My "guinea pig" repository has this in $GIT_DIR/remotes/origin:

        URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        Pull: master:origin
        Pull: +pu:pu
        Pull: maint:maint

Shouldn't approximately this be what git-clone sets up for you? If it's 
getting those heads initially, it should keep the information for future 
use. The only thing it wouldn't know would be the "+" on pu.

I think this makes sense, and especially so, once we later
change the default behaviour of 'git clone' to clone but rename
the remote refs to somewhere else.

-- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --

This implements the idea Daniel Barkalow came up with, to match
the remotes/origin created by clone by default to the workflow I
use myself in my guinea pig repository, to have me eat my own
dog food.

We probably would want to use either .git/refs/local/heads/*
(idea by Linus) or .git/refs/heads/origin/* instead to reduce
the local ref namespace pollution.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

---

 Documentation/git-clone.txt |    3 ++-
 git-clone.sh                |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

applies-to: 9cc3928769f8f4e3597fa446321112c0568514df
a0b45ee2b1362d664cca2d81f2915ed3b903b252

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index cbd83f3..fefd298 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt

@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ This is to help the typical workflow of 
 remote `master` branch.  Every time `git pull` without argument
 is run, the progress on the remote `master` branch is tracked by
 copying it into the local `origin` branch, and merged into the
-branch you are currently working on.
+branch you are currently working on.  Remote branches other than
+`master` are also added there to be tracked.
 
 
 OPTIONS

diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index 1adf604..4fdd652 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh

@@ -202,8 +202,16 @@ then
 		mkdir -p .git/remotes &&
 		echo >.git/remotes/origin \
 		"URL: $repo
-Pull: $head_points_at:origin"
-		cp ".git/refs/heads/$head_points_at" .git/refs/heads/origin
+Pull: $head_points_at:origin" &&
+		cp ".git/refs/heads/$head_points_at" .git/refs/heads/origin &&
+		find .git/refs/heads -type f -print |
+		while read ref
+		do
+			head=`expr "$ref" : '.git/refs/heads/\(.*\)'` &&
+			test "$head_points_at" = "$head" ||
+			test "origin" = "$head" ||
+			echo "Pull: ${head}:${head}"
+		done >>.git/remotes/origin
 	esac
 
 	case "$no_checkout" in

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