From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:50:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Remotes order in "git remote update"
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803092148480.3975@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <2008-03-09-12-21-35+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> 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