Re: [PATCH] git-clone: use wildcard specification for tracking branches

Junio C Hamano wrote:

This stops enumerating the set of branches found on the remote
side when a clone was made in the configuration file.  Instead,
a single entry that maps each remote branch to the local
tracking branch for the remote under the same name is created.

Doing it this way not only shortens the configuration file, but
automatically adjusts to a new branch added on the remote side
after the clone is made.

[...]

Does this deal with non-fast-forward branches like 'pu'? Does
it add $head_points_at at the beginning, before glob... wait,
this is not needed if there is branch.$head_points_at.merge.
But perhaps it still would be better to have:

  [remote "origin"]
        url   = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
        fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        fetch =+refs/heads/pu:refs/remotes/origin/pu

  [branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge  = refs/heads/master ;# full spec of remote branch

But this is very nice. Thanks.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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