Re: efficient cloning

[Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>]

On Monday 20 March 2006 09:54, you wrote:
>  * A new flag --use-separate-remote stops contaminating local
>    branch namespace by upstream branch names.  The upstream
>    branch heads are copied in .git/refs/remotes/ instead of

Shouldn't this be .git/refs/remotes/origin/?
Ie. different namespaces for different remotes?

Linus wanted to still be able to say "origin" which automatically
would map to "remotes/origin/master", where the name of the remote
branch (here "master") is the first mentioned in the Pull line of
the .git/remotes file in eg.

	git diff origin..master

I am not sure whether we really want "take first refspec mentioned on Pull
line", as there can be multiple tracked remote branches with their own local
developments...
Ie. I want to be able to specify: "The local development branch X is based on
the following remote branch Y , which is tracked locally as Z.".
This way, you also could warn/prohobit accidential nonsense merges because of wrong use
of "git-pull". 

Josef