Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] remote: read $GIT_DIR/branches/* with strbuf_getline()
Moritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de> writes:
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> The line read from the branch file is directly trimmed after reading with
> strbuf_trim(). There is thus no logic expecting CR, so strbuf_getline_lf()
> can be replaced by its CRLF counterpart.
>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Neeb <lists@moritzneeb.de>
> ---
> To be honest, I did not yet fully understand the purpose of this branches/ file.
> What I'd expect is that it is some intermediary file while fetching?
> Or is it edited directly by the user and thus it's necessary to strip spaces
> that could be added accidentally?
[Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt]
branches::
A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
to specify a URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'.
A file can be stored as `branches/<name>` and then
'name' can be given to these commands in place of
'repository' argument. See the REMOTES section in
linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. This mechanism is legacy
and not likely to be found in modern repositories. This
directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and
"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/branches" will be used instead.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>