From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:55:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git push .git/branches shorthand
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508081154190.32406@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200508081141.23242.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

> IMHO, $GIT_DIR/branches/ is really confusing.
> Hmmm... in $GIT_DIR/branches/ there are named references to remote (named) 
> references.

Not necessarily. The following is perfectly valid:

echo "rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > .git/branches/x

It does not contain a named reference, just a host.

Ciao,
Dscho