Re: Pushing patches to staging

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Pushing patches to staging
>
>
> Thanks, David.  I've seen your earlier mail where you recommend:
>
> "Make sure that you fetch dev/staging.  I find it easiest to fetch all:
> have something like the following in .git/config
> [remote "origin"]
> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> url = ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond.git"
>
> If I'm not doing much in the way of development, do you think it's
> worth fetching all the remote branches?

It's a rather cheap operation, actually, since git transfers only
"objects", so every file in such a branch that is the same as a file
somewhere in the already fetched history is not getting transferred.

> Is there a way just to fetch staging, and is this sensible?

I think you can have more than one fetch line, so you can just add
something like

fetch = +refs/heads/staging:refs/remotes/origin/staging

to the lines that are already there.

-- 
David Kastrup