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Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2006, 23:06 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> 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?
What about
        Pull: +refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
functionality, i.e. allowing force-update (non fast-forward) fetches?
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> .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>.

And first pull line is default branch to merge, all the rest is marked as not-for-merge?

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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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