Fetching specific refs

[giladwo]

Hi, jj newbie here :)

In git I can limit the default git fetch --all to specific refs using a configuration like

[remote "origin"]
        url = ...
        # fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        fetch = +refs/heads/foo/*:refs/remotes/origin/foo/*
        fetch = +refs/heads/bar/*:refs/remotes/origin/bar/*

jj seems to ignore this when I jj git init --colocate in a repo with a similar configuration or when .jj/repo/store/git/config is modified directly with similar specific refspecs.

The main issue this is supposed to solve is that I'm working on a huge monorepo where I only care about a relatively small set of branches, and this makes the experience much nicer.
It's not up to me to break it up, but I'm open to suggestions if there are better ways to deal with this situation.

Bonus question: is there an equivalent of git fetching an arbitrary commit by hash?
I know there's jj git fetch --branch, but it doesn't accept an arbitrary commit hash nor multiple branches.

Thanks!

[yuja]

No, and no. You'll need to use git fetch for now. There are feature requests, though.

#5323

[gw-vastdata]

In case someone else arrives here, and until #5323 is completed:

I realized jj git fetch accepts multiple -b flags and they support globs, so for now I get around this limitation with an alias like this one:

[aliases]
fbt = ["git", "fetch", "-b", "glob:BUILD/myuser/*", "-b", "TEAM/myteam-*"]