Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 13, 2008, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801132220200.8333@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <47893F53.2070908@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Why is your patch then not about git-submodule?
> > 
> > And I still fail to see -- even for submodules -- how you begin to 
> > tackle that lookup problem.
> 
> Because git-submodule is a wrapper around git-fetch and git-clone and 
> git-remote, and those lacked the mechanism to honor the fact that when I 
> said
> 
>       git clone -o  frotz frontz.foo.bar/foo.git
> 
> I *defined* the upstream's nickname as "frotz", not "origin", and origin 
> is *not* defined so don't try to use it. As sub-modules are git 
> projects, fixing this in a sub-module necessarily fixes it in any git 
> project.

Unfortunately, you _still_ fail to even ackonwledge that you still need a lookup, and that I have a point when saying "your patch does not help, since you still have a lookup".

But I start to believe that you do not even want to present an argument against this reasoning, so I will stop here.

Ciao, Dscho