Re: [CFH] Remotes conversion script

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-25 09:04:41
Petr Baudis wrote:

> 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
ShadeHawk on #git


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