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

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 28, 2005, 16:29 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511281728110.11362@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Can you live with something like this?
> 
>  - we will add new ones to config, now we have it;
> 
>  - we will not deprecate existing ones outside of config for some time;
> 
>  - we will not duplicate/move existing ones into config at least
>    for now to keep our work less complicated;
> 
>  - we would revisit deprecating things outside config file
>    sometime later after 1.0 stabilizes, and that's when we will
>    talk about moving these things into config.
I can very well live with this!

As a first step, we could support getting the remote information from .git/config after testing .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 19 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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