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Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2006, 21:39 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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>   if someone is currently bored, it would be very nice to have a
> conversion script for converting remotes/ to [remote] .config sections
> (unless I missed it and someone already did such a great thing).
> 
>   I think about supporting just the [remote] sections in Cogito since
> they are much easier to handle than the remotes/ file format, but in
> order to maintain reasonable degree of compatibility with current
> repositories (even freshly cloned since git-clone still generates those
> horrible things ;-) ) such a script would be a must... and since this is
> not interesting strictly for Cogito only, I hoped that perhaps some core
> Git people would be interested to help here.

If I remember correctly currently only some functionality provided by remotes file can be provided by [remote] and [branch] sections of git config.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  2. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2006
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  6. SantiSep 24, 2006
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