Jakub Narębski <[email protected]> writes: >> As to fetching from two or more places as "fallback", I am >> moderately negative to add it as a dumb feature that does nothing >> more than "My fetch from A failed, so let's blindly try it from B". >> I'd prefer to keep the "My fetch from A is failing" knowledge near >> the surface of end user's consciousness as a mechanism to pressure A >> to fix it--that way everybody who is fetching from A benefits. >> After all, doing "git remote add B" once (you'd need to tell the URL >> for B anyway to Git) and issuing "git fetch B" after seeing your >> regular "git fetch" fails once in a blue moon is not all that >> cumbersome, I would think. > > One would need to configure fallback B remote to use the same > remote-branch namespace as remote A, if it is to be used as fallback, > I would think.
Yeah, I left it out because I thought that was obvious, but spelling it out explicitly may have helped those who weren't reading carefully. Thanks
