Fetch all remotes.

[howbazaar]

I have my remotes generally set up so origin is my repos, and upstream reflects the project's upstream repository. godeps always used to return me an error godeps had previously set the tree to be some revision that was not the tip of master. By telling git to fetch all remotes rather than just the default (origin), we bring in the upstream changes too.

[howbazaar]

I have live tested this for a few weeks first. All seems to be good.

[babbageclunk]

I was just about to make the same change.

[rogpeppe]

Fetching all remotes seems quite heavyweight to me. I often have quite a few remotes configured (for example I've got 15 remotes for github.com/juju/juju) and I fear that this will cause fetches to take a long time.

I just checked. In that repository, "git fetch" took 2s to run, but "git fetch --all" took over 2 minutes.

For Go repositories, origin really is the best default for the main repository, as that's the remote set up by go get, and also you almost never want to do "git fetch" on your own repository unless you're changing machines.

However I appreciate that your setup isn't that uncommon. How about blessing "upstream" and doing a fetch of that too if it exists?

[howbazaar]

That would work for me.

On 8 October 2016 4:18:33 AM NZDT, Roger Peppe [email protected] wrote:

Fetching all remotes seems quite heavyweight to me. I often have quite a few remotes configured (for example I've got 15 remotes for github.com/juju/juju) and I fear that this will cause fetches to take a long time.

I just checked. In that repository, "git fetch" took 2s to run, but "git fetch --all" took over 2 minutes.

For Go repositories, origin really is the best default for the main repository, as that's the remote set up by go get, and also you almost never want to do "git fetch" on your own repository unless you're changing machines.

However I appreciate that your setup isn't that uncommon. How about blessing "upstream" and doing a fetch of that too if it exists?

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