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Re: efficient cloning

From
JWJosef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 20, 2006, 16:30 UTC
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<200603201730.19373.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
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On Monday 20 March 2006 09:54, you wrote:
>  * A new flag --use-separate-remote stops contaminating local
>    branch namespace by upstream branch names.  The upstream
>    branch heads are copied in .git/refs/remotes/ instead of

Shouldn't this be .git/refs/remotes/origin/? Ie. different namespaces for different remotes?

Linus wanted to still be able to say "origin" which automatically would map to "remotes/origin/master", where the name of the remote branch (here "master") is the first mentioned in the Pull line of the .git/remotes file in eg.

	git diff origin..master

I am not sure whether we really want "take first refspec mentioned on Pull line", as there can be multiple tracked remote branches with their own local developments... Ie. I want to be able to specify: "The local development branch X is based on the following remote branch Y , which is tracked locally as Z.". This way, you also could warn/prohobit accidential nonsense merges because of wrong use of "git-pull". 

Josef
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  4. James CloosMar 20, 2006
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  11. Josef WeidendorferMar 20, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
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  17. Jeff KingMar 21, 2006
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  21. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2006
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