Allow the user to control the verbosity of merge-recursive.

diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
index 144f1701553a1e2f4204a2df15e66437e0670123..d2e4c2b9aede8310879cea9c47bd3cee323f11af 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-parse-remote.sh
+++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
@@ -76,16 +76,32 @@ get_remote_default_refs_for_push () {
 # from get_remote_refs_for_fetch when it deals with refspecs
 # supplied on the command line.  $ls_remote_result has the list
 # of refs available at remote.
+#
+# The first token returned is either "explicit" or "glob"; this
+# is to help prevent randomly "globbed" ref from being chosen as
+# a merge candidate
 expand_refs_wildcard () {
+       first_one=yes
        for ref
        do
                lref=${ref#'+'}
                # a non glob pattern is given back as-is.
                expr "z$lref" : 'zrefs/.*/\*:refs/.*/\*$' >/dev/null || {
+                       if test -n "$first_one"
+                       then
+                               echo "explicit"
+                               first_one=
+                       fi
                        echo "$ref"
                        continue
                }
 
+               # glob
+               if test -n "$first_one"
+               then
+                       echo "glob"
+                       first_one=
+               fi
                from=`expr "z$lref" : 'z\(refs/.*/\)\*:refs/.*/\*$'`
                to=`expr "z$lref" : 'zrefs/.*/\*:\(refs/.*/\)\*$'`
                local_force=
@@ -116,7 +132,8 @@ canon_refs_list_for_fetch () {
        if test "$1" = "-d"
        then
                shift ; remote="$1" ; shift
-               set x $(expand_refs_wildcard "$@")
+               set $(expand_refs_wildcard "$@")
+               is_explicit="$1"
                shift
                if test "$remote" = "$(get_default_remote)"
                then
@@ -125,6 +142,10 @@ canon_refs_list_for_fetch () {
                        merge_branches=$(git-repo-config \
                            --get-all "branch.${curr_branch}.merge")
                fi
+               if test -z "$merge_branches" && test $is_explicit != explicit
+               then
+                       merge_branches=..this.will.never.match.any.ref..
+               fi
        fi
        for ref
        do