On Thursday 03 July 2008 02:31:35 Junio C Hamano wrote: > This is age old usability feature that lets you say "ls-remote r1" even > when you do *not* have "r1.git" Is it just me or does that sentence not make any sense at all? ;) I mean, _of cource_ I want the contents of "r1" if I say "give me the contents of r1". I could understand if Git looked in "r1.git" if there was no "r1" but the way it is currently done is plain wrong. IMHO, of course. > If you have both, you already have found the way to disambiguate ;-) Yes, _now_ I know. In my opinion it’s very unintuitive and should be changed. And if—for some strange reason—this is to be kept as a compatibility feature it should at least be documented somewhere in large red blinking letters that under certain circumstances Git doesn’t care about the path you give it but simply chooses to look somewhere else. :) David
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