git-clone: use wildcard specification for tracking branches

Junio C Hamano · Junio C Hamano · commit 61dde8f91672 · 2006-12-16T13:01:41.000-08:00
This stops enumerating the set of branches found on the remote
side when a clone was made in the configuration file.  Instead,
a single entry that maps each remote branch to the local
tracking branch for the remote under the same name is created.

Doing it this way not only shortens the configuration file, but
automatically adjusts to a new branch added on the remote side
after the clone is made.

Unfortunately this cannot be done for the traditional layout,
where we always need to special case the 'master' to 'origin'
mapping within the local branch namespace.  But that is Ok; it
will be going away before v1.5.0.

We could also lose the "primary branch" mapping at the
beginning, but that has to wait until we implement the "forbid
'git pull' when we do not have branch.$current.merge for the
current branch" policy we earlier discussed.  That should also
be in v1.5.0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;junkio@cox.net&gt;
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
@@ -366,41 +366,54 @@ then
 		)
 	)
 
-	# Write out remotes/$origin file, and update our "$head_points_at".
+	# Write out remote.$origin config, and update our "$head_points_at".
 	case "$head_points_at" in
 	?*)
-		mkdir -p "$GIT_DIR/remotes" &&
+		# Local default branch
 		git-symbolic-ref HEAD "refs/heads/$head_points_at" &&
+
+		# Tracking branch for the primary branch at the remote.
 		case "$use_separate_remote" in
 		t)	origin_track="$remote_top/$head_points_at"
 			git-update-ref HEAD "$head_sha1" ;;
 		*)	origin_track="$remote_top/$origin"
 			git-update-ref "refs/heads/$origin" "$head_sha1" ;;
 		esac &&
+
+		# Upstream URL and the primary branch tracking
 		git-repo-config remote."$origin".url "$repo" &&
 		git-repo-config remote."$origin".fetch \
 			"refs/heads/$head_points_at:$origin_track" &&
-		(cd "$GIT_DIR/$remote_top" && find . -type f -print) |
-		while read dotslref
-		do
-			name=`expr "$dotslref" : './\(.*\)'`
-			if test "z$head_points_at" = "z$name"
-			then
-				continue
-			fi
-			if test "$use_separate_remote" = '' &&
-			   test "z$origin" = "z$name"
-			then
-				continue
-			fi
-			git-repo-config remote."$origin".fetch "refs/heads/${name}:$remote_top/${name}" '^$'
-		done &&
+
+		# Set up the mappings to track the remaining branches.
+		case "$use_separate_remote" in
+		t)
+			git-repo-config remote."$origin".fetch \
+				"refs/heads/*:$remote_top/*" '^$'
+			;;
+		*)
+			(cd "$GIT_DIR/$remote_top" && find . -type f -print) |
+			while read dotslref
+			do
+				name=`expr "$dotslref" : './\(.*\)'`
+				if test "z$head_points_at" = "z$name" ||
+					test "z$origin" = "z$name"
+				then
+					continue
+				fi
+				git-repo-config remote."$origin".fetch \
+				"refs/heads/${name}:$remote_top/${name}" '^$'
+			done
+			;;
+		esac &&
+
 		case "$use_separate_remote" in
 		t)
 			rm -f "refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD"
 			git-symbolic-ref "refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD" \
 				"refs/remotes/$origin/$head_points_at"
 		esac &&
+
 		git-repo-config branch."$head_points_at".remote "$origin" &&
 		git-repo-config branch."$head_points_at".merge "refs/heads/$head_points_at"
 	esac
