From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:29:58 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] Automatically transform .git/{branches,remotes} into .git/config Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vfyph1ebq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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