From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:27:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the remote note the fetch-tool prints after storing a fetched reference
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706060427l1846bde7racabcfea5d15bdb4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vps495uvs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 6/6/07, J Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > 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!

> > 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?