Re: [PATCH] Allow fetching references from any namespace

> Junio C Hamano, Fri, May 11, 2007 22:54:47 +0200:
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > not only from the three defined: heads, tags and remotes.
>> >
>> > Noticed when I tried to fetch the references created by git-p4-import.bat:
>> > they are placed into separate namespace (refs/p4import/, to avoid showing
>> > them in git-branch output). As canon_refs_list_for_fetch always prepended
>> > refs/heads/ it was impossible, and annoying: it worked before. Normally,
>> > the p4import references are useless anywhere but in the directory managed
>> > by perforce, but in this special case the cloned directory was supposed
>> > to be a backup, including the p4import branch: it keeps information about
>> > where the imported perforce state came from.
>> 
>> Have no objection to the patch itself, but mind pointing out
>> where we broke it (I suspect it is around 1.5.0)?
>> 
>
> Maybe even much earlier. According to
>
>     git log -p --decorate -- git-fetch-script git-parse-remote-script
>
>     commit ac4b0cff00b7629657e61a1d6e1f1a1250d03198
>     Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>     Date:   Sat Aug 20 02:52:24 2005 -0700
>
> 	[PATCH] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support.