Non-destructive editing of git cache config.

git_cache.py

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """A git command for managing a local cache of git repositories."""
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 import errno
 import logging
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     # not stuck.
     self.RunGit(['config', 'gc.autopacklimit', '0'], cwd=cwd)
 
     # Allocate more RAM for cache-ing delta chains, for better performance
     # of "Resolving deltas".
     self.RunGit(['config', 'core.deltaBaseCacheLimit',
                  gclient_utils.DefaultDeltaBaseCacheLimit()], cwd=cwd)
 
     self.RunGit(['config', 'remote.origin.url', self.url], cwd=cwd)
     self.RunGit(['config', '--replace-all', 'remote.origin.fetch',
-                 '+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'], cwd=cwd)
+                 '+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*', '\\+refs/heads/\\*:.*'], cwd=cwd)

[iannucci, 2014/08/19 20:58:55]

let's use r"raw strings" to avoid the backslash-madness

[szager1, 2014/08/19 21:15:48]

Done.

     for ref in self.refs:
       ref = ref.lstrip('+').rstrip('/')
       if ref.startswith('refs/'):
         refspec = '+%s:%s' % (ref, ref)
+        regex = '\\+%s:.*' % ref.replace('*', '\\*')
       else:
         refspec = '+refs/%s/*:refs/%s/*' % (ref, ref)
-      self.RunGit(['config', '--add', 'remote.origin.fetch', refspec], cwd=cwd)
+        regex = '\\+refs/heads/%s:.*' % ref.replace('*', '\\*')
+      self.RunGit(
+          ['config', '--replace-all', 'remote.origin.fetch', refspec, regex],
+          cwd=cwd)
 
   def bootstrap_repo(self, directory):
     """Bootstrap the repo from Google Stroage if possible.
 
     More apt-ly named bootstrap_repo_from_cloud_if_possible_else_do_nothing().
     """
 
     python_fallback = False
     if sys.platform.startswith('win') and not self.FindExecutable('7z'):
       python_fallback = True
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     return options, args
 
 
 def main(argv):
   dispatcher = subcommand.CommandDispatcher(__name__)
   return dispatcher.execute(OptionParser(), argv)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))