Re: [BUG] git remote add failure
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
>
> > I think I've found a bug in "git remote add". I tried the following:
> >
> > $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> > Cannot get the repository state from http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> > fetch spearce2: command returned error: 1
> >
> > Obviously I used the wrong URI. Then I tried again:
> >
> > $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/r/git/spearce.git
> > remote spearce2 already exists.
> >
> > I think Git should not store the bad info and block the name when the
> > first call wasn't successfull.
>
> The problem there is of course that the fetch could fail because you are
> offline. In that case, you do not want git remote to throw the
> information away.
Right. But maybe there should be an easier way for the user to "force" adding the remote over the existing remote. Much like how they can force creating a branch over an existing branch.
Too bad -f is already taken. :-\
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Shawn.
