Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote: filter out invalid remote configurations

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:50:33 -0700

Carlos Martín Nieto <[email-masked]> writes:

> In remote's configuration callback, anything that looks like
> 'remote.<name>.*' creates a remote '<name>'. This remote may not end
> up having any configuration for a remote, but it's still in the list,
> so 'git remote' shows it, which means something like
>
>     [remote "bogus"]
>         hocus = pocus
>
> will show a remote 'bogus' in the listing, even though it won't work
> as a remote name for either git-fetch or git-push.

Isn't this something the user may want to be aware of, though?
Hiding these would rob a chance for such an entry to be noticed from
the user---is it a good change?

> Filter out the remotes that we created which have no urls in order to
> work around such configuration entries.