Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 20, 2005, 23:26 UTC
Message-ID: <200511210026.30280.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511200935081.13959@g5.osdl.org>

On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 	[branches.origin]
> 		url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 		pull = master:origin

Two things:
* base names are case insensitive. Repository shortcuts are case
sensitive (and head names, too)
* to get rid of .git/branches/XXX, XXX has to be allowed as
base name. But XXX can contain anything a head name can (including ".").

Not really a problem. Use the ' for ' syntax:

[remotes]
	url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git for origin
	pull = master:origin for origin

Not really nice. We can not have "for" as head name.

Josef

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