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| author | W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> | 2013-02-17 19:15:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-18 00:48:42 -0800 |
| commit | 47adb8ac7c550bc89e7eae743dcc8940c2549edf (patch) | |
| tree | fd63882d031e63763dd952d3d0b100d42fcf5650 /Documentation | |
| parent | d1471e061657c2e437076947e0e51a3c32adfa60 (diff) | |
| download | git-47adb8ac7c550bc89e7eae743dcc8940c2549edf.tar.gz | |
user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config
I hardly ever setup remote.<name>.url using 'git config'. While it
may be instructive to do so, we should also point out 'git remote
add'.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index a546b10ee1..c28ba0dac0 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2856,48 +2856,34 @@ branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master If there are other repositories that you also use frequently, you can create similar configuration options to save typing; for example, -after ------------------------------------------------- -$ git config remote.example.url git://example.com/proj.git +$ git remote add example git://example.com/proj.git ------------------------------------------------- -then the following two commands will do the same thing: +adds the following to `.git/config`: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git fetch git://example.com/proj.git master:refs/remotes/example/master -$ git fetch example master:refs/remotes/example/master +[remote "example"] + url = git://example.com/proj.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/* ------------------------------------------------- -Even better, if you add one more option: - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git config remote.example.fetch master:refs/remotes/example/master -------------------------------------------------- +Also note that the above configuration can be performed by directly +editing the file `.git/config` instead of using linkgit:git-remote[1]. -then the following commands will all do the same thing: +After configuring the remote, the following three commands will do the +same thing: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git fetch git://example.com/proj.git master:refs/remotes/example/master -$ git fetch example master:refs/remotes/example/master +$ git fetch git://example.com/proj.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/* +$ git fetch example +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/example/* $ git fetch example ------------------------------------------------- -You can also add a "+" to force the update each time: - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git config remote.example.fetch +master:refs/remotes/example/master -------------------------------------------------- - -Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git fetch" possibly -throwing away commits on 'example/master'. - -Also note that all of the above configuration can be performed by -directly editing the file .git/config instead of using -linkgit:git-config[1]. - See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details on the configuration -options mentioned above. +options mentioned above and linkgit:git-fetch[1] for more details on +the refspec syntax. [[git-concepts]] |