From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:57:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script
Message-ID: <ef72h1$dk9$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609242347090.25371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> If I remember correctly currently only some functionality provided by
>> remotes file can be provided by [remote] and [branch] sections of git
>> config.
> 
> ... and what might the lacking functionality be?
> 
> .git/remotes/<name>    config
> 
> URL:                   remote.<name>.url
> Pull:                  remote.<name>.fetch
> Push:                  remote.<name>.push
> 
> You can even have multiple entries in the config, and it behaves as if you 
> had multiple lines in .git/remotes/<name>.

Hmmm... strange, in 'next' branch.<name>.* are documented in
Documentation/config.txt, but the remote.<name>.* are not.

Neither is documented [branch "funky name"] syntax (branch."funky name").

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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