Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 11:22 PM
> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> So we can have a branch whose remote is '.'
>> _and_ a remote whose URL is '.'
>
> Yes, and they are two separate concepts.
Thank you of the confirmation.

>
> "git fetch" while on "mywork" branch with this:
>
>    [branch "mywork"]
>        remote = git://git.k.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>        merge = refs/heads/master
>
> without having any named remote whose remote.$name.url is set to
> that URL may happen to work but it is by accident as far as I know.
Interesting. Any thoughts on which way it should be 
documented/deprecated?

> As you do not copy to any remote tracking branches, @{u} would not
> work, so it is not something useful.  But on the other hand
>
>    [branch "mywork"]
>        remote = .
>        merge = refs/heads/master
>
> works _as if_ you have
Thank you of the confirmation.

>
>    [remote "."]
>        url = "."
> ;; no fetch refspec like +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>        ;; no push refspec like +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>
> so in that sense, you _could_ think of branch.$name.remote as a
> (generic) URL or a name of a (special) remote, but it is easier to
> think about it as the latter.
Yes.

>
> And remote.$name.url = "." for any name, e.g.
>
>    [remote "here"]
>        url = "."
>
> is a special case of local repository that is named with a relative
> filesystem path.
>
>> Can there be a clash with a named remote that is actually '.', where
>> the push/fetch is actually a no-op?
>
> Nobody sane would do it in the first place, so...

Oh I don't know. I don't think 'sanity' comes into it any more than 
'common sense' is common. It's easy to fall into the inverse 
Kruger-Dunning mode where those in the know don't realise how much they 
know, and how 'stupid' those that don't can be (that'd be me;-).

All this 'what's a dot-repo and where can I use it' came about because 
of an answer that give it's use as a 'trick'.

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Another trick is to use "git push":
>         git push . $production_sha1:refs/heads/master

and

Filipe gave 'git fetch .' in [PATCH 1/3] fetch: add --allow-local 
option, 16 May 2013

Philip