Re: [PATCHv3] git-fetch: Split fetch and merge logic

Santi Béjar [off-list ref] writes:

It makes git-parse-remote.sh and almost all git-fetch independent
of the merge logic.

git-fetch fetches the branches from the remote and saves this
information in .git/FETCH_FETCHED, and at the end it generates
the file .git/FETCH_HEAD.

The current merge behaviour is unchanged.

I overlooked your earlier huge testcase patch, but I noticed it
does not include any test that fetches an annotated tag that
points at a commit or a non-commit, nor an unannotated tag that
is a tree or a blob.  I am too tired to check them right now,
but are you sure you are not regressing with them?

It is sometimes handy to be able to say:

	$ git fetch git-gui tag spearce-gpg-pub
        $ git cat-file -p FETCH_HEAD