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Re: t5515 in general

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2007, 08:04 UTC
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In general I would agree that the whole "backward compatible" thing we do with .git/branches and then .git/remotes when we really went to the new model of using .git/config primarily was done too cautiously, in that the configuration would not affect existing setup that used branches and remotes, as they did not have any way to express those new concepts (i.e. per branch default remote, and per branch default merge sources).

I am actually in favor of killing .git/branches support way before we do 1.6.0, and .git/remotes by the time we do 1.6.0. But if you can arrange the url/fetch configurations to be still taken from these old locations while applying per-branch default remote and merge from .git/config, that would probably be easier for people to migrate to .git/config only style.

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  1. Daniel BarkalowJun 17, 2007
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