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>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-remote.perl b/git-remote.perl
index c56c5a84a4..6e473ecfd0 100755
--- a/git-remote.perl
+++ b/git-remote.perl
@@ -303,6 +303,18 @@ elsif ($ARGV[0] eq 'show') {
 		show_remote($ARGV[$i], $ls_remote);
 	}
 }
+elsif ($ARGV[0] eq 'update') {
+        my $conf = $git->config("remote.fetch");
+	if (defined($conf)) {
+		@remotes = split(' ', $conf);
+	} else {
+	        @remotes = sort keys %$remote;
+	}
+	for (@remotes) {
+		print "Fetching $_\n";
+		$git->command('fetch', "$_");
+	}
+}
 elsif ($ARGV[0] eq 'prune') {
 	my $ls_remote = 1;
 	my $i;
@@ -360,5 +372,6 @@ else {
 	print STDERR "       git remote add <name> <url>\n";
 	print STDERR "       git remote show <name>\n";
 	print STDERR "       git remote prune <name>\n";
+	print STDERR "       git remote update\n";
 	exit(1);
 }