From: Christophe de Dinechin <christophe@dinechin.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:51:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Memory of past repositories in git remote?
Message-ID: <D264AF56-72BB-4658-9DD6-DAC10E3CADBC@dinechin.org>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0903250505o38e0ac54jcf07f4425eee0a6@mail.gmail.com>

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:

> 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