Re: git://oss.sgi.com broke

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 6, 2008, 17:14 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810061005540.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081003121903.6c9a7ebc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

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> y:/usr/src/git26> git --version
> git version 1.5.6.rc0
> 
> y:/usr/src/git26> cat .git/branches/git-xfs
> git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git#master

Hmm. That's the really old and deprecated branch format.

I'm getting a "Connection refused" from oss.sgi.com, and I think there's possibly something broken there, but quite independently of that, maybe we can try to teach you another way to set up remote branches?

In your .git/config file, use

	[remote "git-xfs"]
		url = git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git
		fetch = master

because the whole .git/branches/<branch-name> thing is fairly deprecated, and cannot handle some things that the .git/config file format can (like saying where to fetch into, or how to push back etc).

		Linus