On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > A long, long, long time ago, we stored the "upstream" information of > branches in files inside the .git/branches/ directory. We don't do this > anymore, though. Since 5751f49010e (Move remote parsing into a library > file out of builtin-push., 2007-05-12), to be precise. > > This is sort of a sibling to 75c384efb52 (Do not create $GIT_DIR/remotes/ > directory anymore., 2006-12-19). > > The tests t5505-remote and t5516-fetch-push need to be adjusted now, as > they expect to find a .git/branches/ directory. > > This reverts c8a58ac5a52 (Revert "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches > directory on init", 2009-10-31). > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- This (and the previous patches) makes sense to me. Thanks, Stefan