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Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 28, 2005, 01:52 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511280248020.12343@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<20051127125945.GD22159@pasky.or.cz>
Hi,
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> I've tried to explain that branches and remotes are different concepts,

Well, no. They aren't. The "branches" concept is a proper special case of the "remotes" concept.

But what the heck, I don't care what you eventually use.

I only realized that we -- in the good tradition of UNIX -- have many different formats for different configurations: Some configurations are in .gitignore, some are in .git/branches/, some in .git/remotes/, some in .git/config, and even some in environment variables!

If everybody says that this should stay so, I'll just shut up.

Hth, Dscho

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Message 8 of 21 in “[RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config”
  1. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  2. Josef WeidendorferNov 21, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  4. Josef WeidendorferNov 21, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 21, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 27, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2005
  10. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2005
  12. Josef WeidendorferNov 28, 2005
  13. Andreas EricssonNov 28, 2005
  14. Generic configuration plumbing (Was: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform...)Josef Weidendorfer, Nov 28, 2005
  15. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisNov 28, 2005
  17. Josef WeidendorferNov 28, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2005
  19. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisNov 28, 2005
  21. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005

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