From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:59:15 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config Message-ID: <20051128135915.GR22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:52:08AM CET, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin said that... > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > I've tried to explain that branches and remotes are different concepts, > > Well, no. They aren't. The "branches" concept is a proper special case of > the "remotes" concept. Yes, but precisely what I want to do is to avoid (most of) the "added value" of the remotes concept, if you will. Also, it really is a different namespace than branches (while branches share the same namespace with heads); I can try to make the namespaces match, but when they suddenly won't, you are in big mess. > But what the heck, I don't care what you eventually use. > > I only realized that we -- in the good tradition of UNIX -- have many > different formats for different configurations: Some configurations are in > .gitignore, some are in .git/branches/, some in .git/remotes/, some in > .git/config, and even some in environment variables! > > If everybody says that this should stay so, I'll just shut up. As I said, I don't care much if this moves to the git configuration file, but please don't merge it with the remotes. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.