From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:10:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] t/t5505-remote: remove dependency on $origin_url
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In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0mKQnyDXe6AfVzNbh7qOdYbyrVrgt9GMgT2c9u+1jykJg@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Is there a reason why "quux" is better than another randomly chosen
>> string "$(pwd)/one"?
>
> "$(pwd)/one" is not randomly chosen: that configuration will work with
> push/pull, and is therefore misleading.

But isn't the "URL:" field in remotes file meant to be usable with
push and pull?  Why is it misleading to put a value that is more
plausible (I believe "'one' in the current directory" is another
repository and the intent is that the old .git/remotes/origin setup
lets you fetch from and push to that repository) there?

I do not think you are creating a quux repository to be pushed into
and fetched from with this change. Placing 'quux' in the "URL:" field
feels a lot more misleading to me.  What am I missing?