Re: Friendly refspecs

Teemu Likonen [off-list ref] writes:

[By the way, please never redirect the response to your messages away from
you with:

    Mail-Followup-To: Jeff King [off-list ref], Ingo Molnar [off-list ref],
            git@vger.kernel.org

You wasted 30 seconds of my (and anybody who potentially wanted to give
advice to you) time by forcing me fix the To: header while composing this
response.  I know Jeff understands what I am going to mention, and I do
not want to waste his time by putting him on To: header.]

Currently "git fetch <URL>" does not seem to do anything useful for
non-git-hackers. It seems to fetch objects but not create any branches
referring to them.

I'd suggest you to study:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31351/focus=31634

Not everybody wants remote tracking.