From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:15:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix git-push --mirror also mirroring refs/remotes/
Message-ID: <200905110015.06939.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vskjctyey.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, 10.05.2009:
> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
> 
> > Bryan Drewery, 10.05.2009:
> >> This behavior makes no sense to me. Can we at least add a config option
> >> to make it not push remotes? I push my development repository
> >> to a remote private repository only as a backup, and push my master/next
> >> to a public repository. I see no reason to push my 8 remotes and
> >> all their branches to my backup repository.
> >
> > Why are you disturbed by the remotes, if it's only a backup repository
> > where you don't look into in the normal case?
> 
> I suspect you got a wrong "backup".
> 
> [...]
> 
> It would be a regression if you stop pushing the refs/remotes
> hierarchy, and such a proposal must be backed by an argument that says the
> benefit such a change brings in far outweighs the regression it causes.

I'm not sure if this is addressed to me, but I'm not for removing
refs/remotes from push --mirror, maybe I was a bit confusing above.

Markus