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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git remote add failure
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:20:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019002017.GP14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710181708230.25221@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> 
> > I think I've found a bug in "git remote add". I tried the following:
> > 
> > $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> > Cannot get the repository state from http://repo.or.cz/git/spearce.git
> > fetch spearce2: command returned error: 1
> > 
> > Obviously I used the wrong URI. Then I tried again:
> > 
> > $ git remote add -f spearce2 http://repo.or.cz/r/git/spearce.git
> > remote spearce2 already exists.
> > 
> > I think Git should not store the bad info and block the name when the
> > first call wasn't successfull.
> 
> The problem there is of course that the fetch could fail because you are 
> offline.  In that case, you do not want git remote to throw the 
> information away.

Right.  But maybe there should be an easier way for the user to
"force" adding the remote over the existing remote.  Much like how
they can force creating a branch over an existing branch.

Too bad -f is already taken.  :-\

-- 
Shawn.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18  8:55 [BUG] git remote add failure Guido Ostkamp
2007-10-18 16:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19  0:20   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]

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