Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano, Fri, May 11, 2007 22:54:47 +0200: >> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > not only from the three defined: heads, tags and remotes. >> > >> > Noticed when I tried to fetch the references created by git-p4-import.bat: >> > they are placed into separate namespace (refs/p4import/, to avoid showing >> > them in git-branch output). As canon_refs_list_for_fetch always prepended >> > refs/heads/ it was impossible, and annoying: it worked before. Normally, >> > the p4import references are useless anywhere but in the directory managed >> > by perforce, but in this special case the cloned directory was supposed >> > to be a backup, including the p4import branch: it keeps information about >> > where the imported perforce state came from. >> >> Have no objection to the patch itself, but mind pointing out >> where we broke it (I suspect it is around 1.5.0)? >> > > Maybe even much earlier. According to > > git log -p --decorate -- git-fetch-script git-parse-remote-script > > commit ac4b0cff00b7629657e61a1d6e1f1a1250d03198 > Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Aug 20 02:52:24 2005 -0700 > > [PATCH] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support. Sounds like it is not even a regression but just was not supposed to work from the beginning. Not that I think lifting that restriction is a bad idea, though. - 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