On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 02:14:56AM -0500, Gennady Uraltsev wrote: > I am on git version 2.20.0 > > $ git remote > > does not show remotes configured in named files in $GIT_DIR/remotes/ > > I do not think that this is the intended behavior. It's a known bug. When 'git remote' was rewritten as a builtin command in C in commit 211c89682e (Make git-remote a builtin, 2008-02-29) the parts dealing with remotes under 'GIT_DIR/remotes/' were not rewritten. I don't know whether that was intended or not, but storing remote information as configuration was about two years old back then. Given that since then '$GIT_DIR/remotes/' got marked as "This mechanism is legacy and not likely to be found in modern repositories", I'm not sure it's worth fixing. Perhaps it's time for calling it deprecated. > In particular: > > $ git init --bare test.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/guraltsev/admin/test/git/test.git/ > > $ cd test.git > > $ mkdir -p remotes > mkdir: created directory 'remotes' > > $ echo -e "URL: /testremote.git \n Push: *:* \n Pull: > refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/testremote/* " > remotes/testremote > > $ git remote > > $ git remote show testremote > fatal: '/testremote.git' does not appear to be a git repository > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights > and the repository exists. > > > > The second to last command should show testremote as a remote. > > > Best, > > Gennady >
