Re: New way of tracking remote branches -- question

From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2007, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <181306.34035.qm@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejq4r4ci.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> > I guess, what I want is still to be able to "see" remotes/
> > when I do "git branch".
> 
> Then do not use "remotes/" but hang everything underneath
> "heads/" (or "git branch -a").
> 
> Of course, the next complaint from you would be that the latest
> git-clone would not make the traditional layout, but ...

What I meant was something of the lines of "git branch -r". As I said, I don't mind the new way of seprating remote branches per repo as is done by remotes/*/ .

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> We've taken "one step at a time" by first introducing separate
> remote layout as an option, taught 'git branch' the needed
> options such as -a and -r, and then made this the default
> layout.  It still looks _different_ to me from what I am used
> to, but that's just traditionalist speaking and I cannot really
> deny the advantage of the separate remote layout offers.  In
> other words, we have been doing "one step at a time".

Me neither. I also think there is an advantage of separately tracking remotes as per remotes/*/ , so that organization is better, i.e. per remote repo.

    Luben