From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:11:29 +0100 Message-ID: <200910311011.31189.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <1256923228-18949-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , , , To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 31 10:12:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N4A0g-0007Mf-P7 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:12:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754334AbZJaJML (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:12:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752906AbZJaJML (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:12:11 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:35501 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbZJaJMK (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:12:10 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:12:13 +0100 Received: from thomas.localnet (84.74.103.245) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:12:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.27.29-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1256923228-18949-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Robin Rosenberg wrote: > Git itself does not even look at this directory. This contradicts the git-fetch manpage though: from urls-remotes.txt, it includes The name of one of the following can be used instead of a URL as `` argument: * a remote in the git configuration file: `$GIT_DIR/config`, * a file in the `$GIT_DIR/remotes` directory, or * a file in the `$GIT_DIR/branches` directory. (and a longer explanation of what they need to look like). So which one is wrong? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch