Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Carl Worth [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:57:00 -0800, "Michael K. Edwards" wrote:

quoted

What do you want all of those branches for?  They haven't been
published to you (that's a human interaction that doesn't go through
git), so for all you know they're just upstream experiments, and doing
things with them is probably shooting yourself in the foot.

The same "what do you want them all for" question could be asked of
git-clone which also fetches all available branches. I really just
want to be able to easily watch what's going on in multiple
repositories.

I want to be able to just say "git update" (or whatever) and then be
able to list and browse and explore the stuff locally.
...

I have no objection to this if it is done in a controlled way
that does not make life more difficult for people who work with
multiple remote repositories.

And I think "git fetch" is the tool for what you want if
enhanced properly; see Linus's message that explaind that we
already have that support in "manually configurable" form but
initializing and maintaining the configuration is currently all
manual and can be improved.