Re: git remote rename, why dosen't it exists?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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Jun 4, 2008, 15:51 UTC

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<1212591245.30731.17.camel@omicron.ep.petrobras.com.br>

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:

> I trying to refactor [in builtin-remote.c] rm into rm_or_rename, but I 
> stumbled into a problem, how do I free a remote struct obtained with 
> "remote_get"?

At the moment, there is no way to do that.

> Another possibility would be another way to check if a remote already 
> exists without allocating it in case it does. The need comes from 
> testing whether the destination name already exists, if it does exists I 
> must free the remote_get and bail_out.

I think in the first step, you can just _not_ free() it, just die().