"git-fetch --tags" can get confused with tags with spaces in their names,
it used to use shell IFS to split the list of tags and also used curl
which insists the URL to be escaped. Fix it so it can work with Martin's
moodle repository http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/.
We still reserve characters like leading plus-sign '+' and colon
':' anywhere to represent refspec src-dst pair, and obviously we
cannot use LF (that terminates Pull: line in .git/remotes
files), but now you can have spaces with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
You can do
git fetch --tags <linus-kernel-repo>
and it should fetch all my tags automatically.
[jc: The original by Linus fetched and overwrote branch heads with
--all, which felt dangerous and wrong, so I removed it. Also this
version does not use any refs that resulted as --tags for later
merge. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This uses the git-update-ref command in scripts for safer updates.
Also places where we used to read HEAD ref by using "cat" were fixed
to use git-rev-parse. This will matter when we start using symbolic
references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The refspecs specified in the .git/remotes/<remote> on the "Pull: "
lines are for fetching multiple heads in one go, but most of the time
making an Octopus out of them is not what is wanted. Make git-fetch
leave the marker in .git/FETCH_HEAD file so that later stages can
tell which heads are for merging and which are not.
Tom Prince made me realize how stupid the original behaviour was.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Linus says that 'of .' to mean the commits came from the local repository
was too confusing and ugly -- I tend to agree with him.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we check the optional objects/info/alternates file at the remote
repository, we forgot to really squelch error message from rsync.
Not having that file is not a crime.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For local operations and downloading and uploading via git aware protocols,
use of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alternates is recommended on the server
side for big projects that are derived from another one (like Linux kernel).
However, dumb protocols and rsync transport needs to resolve this on the
client end, which we did not bother doing until this week.
I noticed we use "rsync -z" but most of our payload is already compressed,
which was not quite right. This commit also fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When git-fetch-pack fails, the command does not notice the failure
and instead pretended nothing was fetched and there was nothing wrong.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
