From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=98Bombe=E2=80=99_Roden?= Subject: Re: [BUG] Git looks for repository in wrong directory Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 03:05:15 +0200 Message-ID: <200807030305.17767.bombe@pterodactylus.net> References: <200807030216.28921.bombe@pterodactylus.net> <7vtzf76c60.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1280002.VB2i74BkSF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 03 03:06:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEDHA-0004IX-OL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:06:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751930AbYGCBFW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:05:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752115AbYGCBFV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:05:21 -0400 Received: from wing.pterodactylus.net ([89.207.253.13]:34496 "HELO pterodactylus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751901AbYGCBFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:05:20 -0400 Received: (qmail 13839 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2008 01:05:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.178.19?) (10.98.86.10) by 10.98.86.1 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2008 01:05:18 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <7vtzf76c60.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart1280002.VB2i74BkSF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 conte= nts=20 of r1". I could understand if Git looked in "r1.git" if there was no "r1" b= ut=20 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=E2=80=99s very unintuitive and should b= e changed.=20 And if=E2=80=94for some strange reason=E2=80=94this is to be kept as a comp= atibility feature=20 it should at least be documented somewhere in large red blinking letters th= at=20 under certain circumstances Git doesn=E2=80=99t care about the path you giv= e it but=20 simply chooses to look somewhere else. :) David --nextPart1280002.VB2i74BkSF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkhsJc0ACgkQsh8Hgp5TwkOTRwCglHikaeUn50CC1Cgad+43SyxR DmwAoLSQBc5r77Vsjtrwl1d2FdwUYr8/ =9hLf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1280002.VB2i74BkSF--