From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:08:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git remote doesn't show remotes from .git/remotes
Message-ID: <7v1uuowu6c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111007150423.GA2076@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:33:23PM +0400, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:
>
>> It seems that 'git remote' doesn't display remotes registered not in
>> .git/config but in .git/remotes/.
>> Is it a bug?
>
> It seems to have been lost in 211c896 (Make git-remote a builtin,
> 2008-02-29).

Sad.

> I don't think there is a specific plan. They're kept for backwards
> compatibility. But really, there is no reason to be using them at all at
> this point.

I've been thinking about making a list of deprecations/deletions for Git
2.0. The only two requirements needed to be added to the list are that it
gets list concensus and it is backed by a solid patch (or patch series).