Re: Friendly refspecs

Junio C Hamano wrote (2008-04-09 14:21 -0700):

[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

Sorry, didn't even know such header existed. After consulting Mutt's
manual and some googling I think I understand it now. I'm a subscriber
to git list (and my Mutt knows that) and Mail-Followup-To told
everyone's MUAs to not include me in recipient list since I get
everything through the list. But this is configurable and generating
Mail-Followup-To should be now turned off.

quoted

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.

Thanks, and I agree. Me neither always want remote tracking. Git's
current behaviour to only create/update FETCH_HEAD seems actually better
- now that I know what it does. I think it's a good idea to show "[new
branch] foo -> FETCH_HEAD" after fetching.