From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:06:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script
Message-ID: <ef730t$dk9$3@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?

What about
        Pull: +refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
functionality, i.e. allowing force-update (non fast-forward) fetches?

> .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?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git