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Re: [PATCH] Fix the remote note the fetch-tool prints after storing a fetched reference

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2007, 11:27 UTC
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On 6/6/07, J Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Which one was fetched when? /home/user/a or /home/user/a.git?
>
> I am half tempted to say that this is very close to "doctor, it
> confuses me when I have both of them".  Imagine the case where
> the source were a remote repository _and_ there was no way other
> than interacting with it via git protocol.  You cannot really
> tell (well, you can tell half, by trying both and if a worked
> but a.git didn't you can tell that a.git does not exist) nor you
> do not really care.

Of course you can! Just print the path to the remote EXACTLY how the user entered it!

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> > Besides, I just noticed git-clone is broken WRT the .git
> > as well: I can clone a "a.git" into "b" (and it ignores -l and -s!),
> > but I can't fetch the "a" (aka "origin") being in "b". And of
> > course, "origin" in "b" is setup as "/path/a", not "/path/a.git".
>
> This probably is worth fixing, independent from what the message
> says before or after your patch.
And "probably" means: it is broken, but this is ok?
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  3. Alex RiesenJun 6, 2007
  4. J Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenJun 6, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2007
  7. Fix the remote note the fetch-tool prints after storing a fetched referenceAlex Riesen, Jun 6, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2007
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