Re: Update local tracking refs when pushing- no way to disable

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Dan McGee wrote:

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I don't know if anyone else has the same way of working as I do, but I
tend to set the "remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate" property to true for
my publicly visible repository, just so I don't have duplicate branch
heads lying around in my local repository. Call this peculiar, but I
like it that way. However, git-push does not respect this property,
meaning I know have these branches whether I want them or not. In a
tool such as qgit or even 'git branch -a' output, it starts to get
awful cluttered.

What git-fetch and git-push care about is whether you have an entry 
"remote.<name>.fetch" with a colon and stuff on the right of it. If so, 
this is a pattern that is used to generate the duplicate branch heads that 
you don't want. git clone sets it up to a default pattern 
(refs/remotes/origin/*), and I don't think there's any way to make it not 
do that, but you can just reconfigure it afterwards if you don't like it.

I can't see where git-push would get the names to use if you don't have 
such an entry, and having the entry isn't useful if you actually don't 
want those refs. It's probably just a matter of deleting it, since it was 
probably created for you by some tool trying to be helpful.

(AFAICT, the only additional stuff that -a shows with git branch is the 
stuff that you're deleting; perhaps qgit should have an option to not show 
remotes, or not show them by default or only show them if what they point 
to isn't otherwise marked? Anyway, it shouldn't be necessary to avoid 
having this information just so that it isn't shown in interfaces you 
use.)

	-Daniel
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