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From: J "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the remote note the fetch-tool prints after storing a fetched reference
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:50:47 -0700
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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/6/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I suspect the above misses the point.
>
> Depends on the point. I mean to say: the path in the output
> of the command does not exist anywhere.
>
>> The test "ls /home/user/linux" is not relevant.  Ability to say
>> "git fetch /home/user/linux" is.
>
> This is still ambiguous:

Yup, there is an ambiguity.  Always has been.

> Which one was fetched when? /home/user/a or /home/user/a.git?

I am half tempted to say that this is very close to "doctor, it
confuses me when I have both of them".  Imagine the case where
the source were a remote repository _and_ there was no way other
than interacting with it via git protocol.  You cannot really
tell (well, you can tell half, by trying both and if a worked
but a.git didn't you can tell that a.git does not exist) nor you
do not really care.

> Besides, I just noticed git-clone is broken WRT the .git
> as well: I can clone a "a.git" into "b" (and it ignores -l and -s!),
> but I can't fetch the "a" (aka "origin") being in "b". And of
> course, "origin" in "b" is setup as "/path/a", not "/path/a.git".

This probably is worth fixing, independent from what the message
says before or after your patch.