Re: [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local option

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
[off-list ref] wrote:

Felipe Contreras wrote:

quoted

Why would I do that? When I do 'git rebase' I want to rebase on top of
'master', not 'origin/master' (or whatever the upstream of 'master'
is).

Ah, so you want @{u} to point to refs/heads/master, but want to modify
fetch to act on the hard-coded "origin", not @{u} (wouldn't you like
to be able to configure this?).

No. What's the point of 'git fetch .'? What does 'git fetch' does when
there's no configured upstream branch? Why doesn't 'git fetch' default
to 'git fetch .' in those cases?

Answer: because 'git fetch .' doesn't make any sense. So if
'branch.HEAD.remote' is '.' it doesn't make sense to do 'git fetch .'.

Seems a bit yuck overall; I wonder if
there's some other way to achieve what you want.

Yeah, add 'branch.A.base' that would be used only by 'git rebase',
which I already suggested before, but I changed my mind.

Fixing 'git fetch' makes much more sense.

-- 
Felipe Contreras