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Re: Memory of past repositories in git remote?

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CDChristophe de Dinechin <christophe@dinechin.org>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 14:51 UTC
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Yep, that was it. I didn't realize that $url.git was being tested first.

Thanks Christophe

On 25 mars 09, at 13:05, Santi Béjar wrote:
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> 2009/3/25 Christophe de Dinechin <christophe.de.dinechin@gmail.com>:
>> Here are the details. I created a git repository in /home/ddd/vmm,  
>> impored
>> some Subversion history, and started working with that. I created a  
>> few
>> branches, e.g. one called "perrier". Then, I realized that there  
>> was a
>> better way to track Subversion changes, and so I moved the old  
>> repository as
>> /home/ddd/vmm.git, and created a new one that I populated with "git  
>> svn
>> clone svn+ssh://path/to/repot -T trunk -b branches -t users". That  
>> new
>> repository has no branch named "perrier" in it.
>
> Git tries different url: $url/.git, $url.git and $url (I'm not sure
> about the order).
>
> So having $url and $url.git is asking for problems. I don't know if it
> is documented somewhere.
>
> HTH,
> Santi
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  1. Christophe de DinechinMar 25, 2009
  2. Santi BéjarMar 25, 2009
  3. Christophe de DinechinMar 25, 2009
  4. Michael J GruberMar 25, 2009

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