From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:39:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44016956.2030609@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602251626280.22647@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
>>ObGit: is there any way to fetch _all_ branches from remote, creating local
>>branches with the same names if they didn't exist yet? Ot, at least, get
>>the full list of branches existing in the remote repository...
>
>
> The magic is "git-ls-remote". In particular, the "--heads" flag limits it
> to just showing branch heads.
>
> Then you can feed that into "git fetch", which takes the format
> "localname:remotename" to tell it how to fetch.
>
> In other words, something like
>
> git fetch remote $(git ls-remote --heads remote | awk '{print $2":"$2}')
>
> should do what you asked for.
Any chance we could get 'git fetch --heads' ?
FWIW, I regularly blow away and create new heads, so the above is rather
long for people who use my repos. A lot of them use rsync because when
you're tracking a repo with ever-changing branches, 'git pull' doesn't
really approximate "make local X look like remote X".
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-26 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 1:02 [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type Stefan Richter
2006-02-25 2:10 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2006-02-25 23:07 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-25 23:22 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 8:11 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-26 8:22 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 9:11 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-26 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 0:17 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 0:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 8:39 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-02-26 9:00 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 10:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-26 11:47 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 5:14 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-26 5:31 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 8:29 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-26 14:34 ` James Bottomley
2006-02-26 14:57 ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 16:21 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-26 23:16 ` [PATCH 2.6.15.4 update] sd: fix memory corruption with broken mode page headers Stefan Richter
2006-02-27 20:25 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
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