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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2007-02-18 23:00:00 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-19 18:34:33 -0800 |
| commit | 1e592d65b50dbec87fde9f4ef1b7fd8d90bf7b8c (patch) | |
| tree | ab3514af964cda2bdd08b64bb1c5eb05342affd7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0bce7a52f2b723bf6717be2951df7c0a49337592 (diff) | |
| download | git-1e592d65b50dbec87fde9f4ef1b7fd8d90bf7b8c.tar.gz | |
Teach git-remote to update existing remotes by fetching from them
This allows users to use the command "git remote update" to update all
remotes that are being tracked in the repository.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 38655350f2..d8e696f4cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -439,6 +439,10 @@ pull.octopus:: pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. +remote.fetch:: + The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update". + See gitlink:git-remote[1]. + remote.<name>.url:: The URL of a remote repository. See gitlink:git-fetch[1] or gitlink:git-push[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index a60c31a315..06ba2e6f26 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git-remote' add <name> <url> 'git-remote' show <name> 'git-remote' prune <name> +'git-remote' update DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -40,7 +41,14 @@ Gives some information about the remote <name>. Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository -referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>". +referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in +"remotes/<name>". + +'update':: + +Fetch updates for the remotes in the repository. By default all remotes +are updated, but this can be configured via the configuration parameter +'remote.fetch'. (See gitlink:git-config[1]). DISCUSSION |