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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon•org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	xfs-masters@oss•sgi.com, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git://oss.sgi.com broke
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:32:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007103208.6fb4f0a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0810061353140.19665@iabervon.org>

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon•org> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > y:/usr/src/git26> git --version
> > > git version 1.5.6.rc0
> > > 
> > > y:/usr/src/git26> cat .git/branches/git-xfs
> > > git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git#master
> > 
> > Hmm. That's the really old and deprecated branch format.
> > 
> > I'm getting a "Connection refused" from oss.sgi.com, and I think there's 
> > possibly something broken there, but quite independently of that, maybe we 
> > can try to teach you another way to set up remote branches?
> > 
> > In your .git/config file, use
> > 
> > 	[remote "git-xfs"]
> > 		url = git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git
> > 		fetch = master
> > 
> > because the whole .git/branches/<branch-name> thing is fairly deprecated, 
> > and cannot handle some things that the .git/config file format can (like 
> > saying where to fetch into, or how to push back etc).
> 
> I think Andrew convinced us to undeprecate that format, because he wants 
> to be able to configure each branch with one line in a separate file. In 
> any case, remote.c takes care of these things seemlessly.
> 

Well I was kinda attached to the old format but my world wouldn't end
if it went away.

Judging from the Next/Trees contents, I suspect that Stephen uses the old
convenient/compact/one-per-file form too.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 19:19 git://oss.sgi.com broke Andrew Morton
2008-10-03 19:27 ` [xfs-masters] " Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-06 16:31 ` Russell Cattelan
2008-10-06 17:34   ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-10-06 17:37   ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-10-06 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-06 17:58   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-07 17:32     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-06 17:30 ` [xfs-masters] " Russell Cattelan
2008-10-07 17:39   ` Andrew Morton

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