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Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2006, 23:04 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:34:24AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Santi <sbejar@gmail.com> said that...
>> It could be I'm wrong (for sure, I miss something), but I see the
>> branches/ files like [remote] sections files with just one fetch:
>> 
>> .git/branches/git:
>> git://...../git.gi
>> 
>> would be:
>> 
>> [remote "git"]
>> url=git://...../git.git
>> fetch=refs/heads/master:refs/heads/git
> 
> That's basically right, the point is that with moving to remotes
> support, we will make each remote live in its own separate namespace,

Which is overkill if we fetch only from one directory. Besides using separate remotes (hmmm, we should add support for refs/remotes/ in gitweb) is a policy decision.

On somewhat unrelated issue: should git-clone create [remote] section (and perhaps [branch] sections) instead of remotes file?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  1. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2006
  6. SantiSep 24, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  9. SantiSep 24, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisSep 24, 2006
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