Re: [RFC] pull/fetch rename

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:45:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

Declaring it a failure depends on what you consider the goal of "git
remote update" to be. I find it very useful as a shorthand for "fetch
from _all_ remotes"[1]. Which does save typing over

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:22:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

*1* The only thing "git remote update" does that "git fetch" does not
is that it can serve as "fetch from everywhere" shorthand.  But that
is something we could have added to "git fetch".  So in that sense, I
think it may make even more sense to deprecate "remote update" and
teach "fetch" how to do that.

...and it would probably help if I had read your footnotes before
responding.

-Peff