On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Well I was kinda attached to the old format but my world wouldn't end if it went away. Judging from the Next/Trees contents, I suspect that Stephen uses the old convenient/compact/one-per-file form too. -- 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
