drop remote pulling; can be done using git remote update --prune

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/gitremotes b/gitremotes
index d49cf2d9e..f596c650f 100755
--- a/gitremotes
+++ b/gitremotes
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 # Parses list of remotes in doc/git.mdwn, configures git to use them
-# all, and fetches updates from them.
-
-my $error=0;
+# all. After running this, use "git remote update --prune" to pull
+# updates from all remotes.
 
 open (IN, "doc/git.mdwn") || die "doc/git.mdwn: $!";
 while (<IN>) {
@@ -15,24 +14,10 @@ while (<IN>) {
 		# check configured url to deal with it changing
 		my $info=`git remote show -n $remote`;
 		my ($oldurl)=$info=~/URL: (.*)/m;
-		my $r;
 		if ($oldurl ne $url) {
 			system("git remote rm $remote 2>/dev/null");
-			$r = system("git", "remote", "add", "-f", $remote, $url)
-		}
-		else {
-			$r = system("git", "fetch", "--no-tag", $remote);
+			system("git", "remote", "add", "-f", $remote, $url)
 		}
-
-		if ($r != 0) {
-			print "$remote failed\n";
-		}
-		$error |= $r;
-		
-		# drop stale tracking branches
-		system("git", "remote", "prune", $remote);
 	}
 }
 close IN;
-
-exit $error;