Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Jun 30, 2008, 23:09 UTC

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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0807010007010.9925@racer>

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<20080630155147.009a24b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> - It's bad to have the same info in two places, and to have to
>   support two different ways of doing the same thing for ever.

It is actually worse: we have three places.

>   For me the biggest part of migrating would be working out what on
>   earth the format of the new files is.  Maybe it's documented
>   somewhere undiscoverable, dunno.

The easiest way is to

	git config remote.$NICKNAME.url $URL

where you said

	echo $URL > .git/branches/$NICKNAME

Actually, you might even like this command better:

	git remote add $NICKNAME $URL