From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:56:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511221854120.27872@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200511221831.03954.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

>   [remote:origin]
>     url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git
>     pull = master:origin
> 
> For this, the parser could return
>     remote.url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git for origin
>     remote.pull = master:origin for origin
> 
> By introducing such a scheme, multi-value vars would fit perfectly
> for use for .git/remotes or .git/branches.

I don't know if you missed it, but hierarchical config keys were 
introduced by b17e659dd4007cb1d3eb5ac32b524c0c5ab59601:

[remote.origin]
	url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git
	pull = master:origin

is parsable by

	git-config-set --get remote.origin.url

now.

Hth,
Dscho