From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:48:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update $GIT_DIR/remotes to $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes in docs
Message-ID: <544dda350911292348g7790b64ep4782dffc427bbde5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091130050333.GA26585@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Er, what? $GIT_DIR/remotes/ and $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/ are not even
> remotely the same thing. The former holds information about how to
> contact remotes (but that information is usually held in the config file
> these days).  The latter holds any tracking refs we have fetched from
> the remotes.

Erg.. thanks for the enlightenment.

I was reading 'git help remote' while attempting to change my local git
repo from tracking

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

to

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

and noticed that the documentation refers to $GIT_DIR/remotes and
(wrongly) thought that it meant $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes.

Sorry for the noise.

Nazri.