Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 24, 2006, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20060924231108.GE20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <ef72ts$dk9$2@sea.gmane.org>

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:04:41AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:34:24AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Santi <sbejar@gmail.com> said that...
> >> It could be I'm wrong (for sure, I miss something), but I see the
> >> branches/ files like [remote] sections files with just one fetch:
> >> 
> >> .git/branches/git:
> >> git://...../git.gi
> >> 
> >> would be:
> >> 
> >> [remote "git"]
> >> url=git://...../git.git
> >> fetch=refs/heads/master:refs/heads/git
> > 
> > That's basically right, the point is that with moving to remotes
> > support, we will make each remote live in its own separate namespace,
> 
> Which is overkill if we fetch only from one directory.

Why?

> Besides using separate remotes (hmmm, we should add support for
> refs/remotes/ in gitweb) is a policy decision.

Cogito's designed so that users don't have to _care_ about the policy at this level and it will just magically work for them, sensibly. If you care enough, you can just modify the config file manually.

> On somewhat unrelated issue: should git-clone create [remote] section
> (and perhaps [branch] sections) instead of remotes file?

Ideally, I would hope for .git/remotes/ to be officially deprecated... (perhaps after the next release?)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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