Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In any case, I think it would be good to have >> something like that, but I think maybe we should tell it where it can put >> its status files, rather than telling it where the .git dir is. > > Yes, that would probably be a good idea, .git/info/remote-<vcs>/<alias> perhaps? What do you mean by <alias> here? Is it the <alias> in [remote "alias"] url = hg::http://some.where/repo/sito/ry.hg IOW, can a user ever use the foreign interface directly from the command line, without ever defining such entries in .git/config, perhaps using "git remote"? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html