From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:09:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git remote add failure
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710181708230.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1192697719.31199.1216526739@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:

> I think I've found a bug in "git remote add". I tried the following:
> 
> $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> Cannot get the repository state from http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> fetch spearce2: command returned error: 1
> 
> Obviously I used the wrong URI. Then I tried again:
> 
> $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/r/git/spearce.git
> remote spearce2 already exists.
> 
> I think Git should not store the bad info and block the name when the
> first call wasn't successfull.

The problem there is of course that the fetch could fail because you are 
offline.  In that case, you do not want git remote to throw the 
information away.

BTW you missed the trailing slash in the HTTP URL, I guess.

Ciao,
Dscho