On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > y:/usr/src/git26> git --version > > git version 1.5.6.rc0 > > > > y:/usr/src/git26> cat .git/branches/git-xfs > > git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git#master > > Hmm. That's the really old and deprecated branch format. > > I'm getting a "Connection refused" from oss.sgi.com, and I think there's > possibly something broken there, but quite independently of that, maybe we > can try to teach you another way to set up remote branches? > > In your .git/config file, use > > [remote "git-xfs"] > url = git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git > fetch = master > > because the whole .git/branches/<branch-name> thing is fairly deprecated, > and cannot handle some things that the .git/config file format can (like > saying where to fetch into, or how to push back etc). I think Andrew convinced us to undeprecate that format, because he wants to be able to configure each branch with one line in a separate file. In any case, remote.c takes care of these things seemlessly. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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
