Junio C Hamano wrote: > As far as I can tell, that valid-remote-nick was done in df93e33c > (Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones, > 2008-02-15), and back in that version, the codepath and the feature > that wants to see a slash and do magical things, which is described > by this comment you are removing: It's a bad hack, in my opinion. When I say git fetch ../foomery, it should catch the pattern at transport_get() and not even attempt to look up a remote in the first place. I will attempt to clean this up soon. > So it appears that back then (and througout to today), nobody uses > that "partial URL" feature which is specific (and was a rather nice > invention/legacy by Cogito) to .git/branches file. It's quite a cute feature, even if a bit magical. > Reminds me of the strategy to deprecate functionality in X (cf. > http://lwn.net/Articles/536520/) ;-) Leaving dead code around to confuse readers? :\ -- 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