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Re: Remotes order in "git remote update"

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 9, 2008, 20:50 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0803092148480.3975@racer.site>
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<2008-03-09-12-21-35+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
Hi,
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
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> On  9/03, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> | Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:
> | 
> | > It looks like remote repositories are ordered alphabetically by their
> | > local names when doing a "git remote update".
> |
> | I think the reimplementaiton in 'next' that will hopefully be in 1.5.5
> | will keep the list of remotes in the order read from the config.
> 
> Indeed it does, thanks.
Well, technically this is a regression.
If you really want to order your remotes, why not add something like
[remotes]
	default = my-first-remote my-second-remote [...]

to the config? That is what the (recently fixed in builtin-remote) remote groups are for...

Ciao, Dscho

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  2. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2008
  3. Samuel TardieuMar 9, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 9, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinMar 10, 2008
  7. Samuel TardieuMar 10, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 10, 2008
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