suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/

suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/

[Jeff Carr]

It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This
makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always
have to go and track down where you got it in the first place. Something
like this perhaps:

~$ cat .git/location
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
~$ git-pull-script

Then something like below could be added to handle that easy enough.

Jeff


--- git-pull-script.orig	2005-07-31 22:23:50.000000000 -0700
+++ git-pull-script	2005-08-22 13:01:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,13 +4,24 @@
 # cogito.]
 #

+LOCATION="$@"
+
+if [ ! $LOCATION ]
+then
+	if [ -f .git/location ]
+	then
+		LOCATION=`cat .git/location`
+	fi
+fi
+
 . git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive"
-. git-parse-remote "$@"
+. git-parse-remote "$LOCATION"
 merge_name="$_remote_name"

-git-fetch-script "$@" || exit 1
+git-fetch-script "$LOCATION" || exit 1

 git-resolve-script \
 	"$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/HEAD)" \
 	"$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/FETCH_HEAD)" \
 	"Merge $merge_name"
+

Re: suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jeff Carr wrote:

> It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This
> makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always
> have to go and track down where you got it in the first place.

This is why your original target (when you clone) is stored as "origin".

Hth,
Dscho

Re: suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/

[Jeff Carr]

On 08/22/2005 01:18 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jeff Carr wrote:
> 
> 
>>It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This
>>makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always
>>have to go and track down where you got it in the first place.
> 
> 
> This is why your original target (when you clone) is stored as "origin".

OK. I rsync'ed the repository directly so a origin file wasn't created.
That explains that. So my small "feature" request reduces to adding
something like this to git-pull-script. Thanks, Jeff


diff --git a/git-pull-script b/git-pull-script
--- a/git-pull-script
+++ b/git-pull-script
@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
+ORIGIN="$@"
+
+if [ ! $ORIGIN ]
+then
+	if [ -f .git/branches/origin ]
+	then
+		ORIGIN=`cat .git/branches/origin`
+	fi
+fi
+
 . git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive"
-. git-parse-remote "$@"
+. git-parse-remote "$ORIGIN"
 merge_name="$_remote_name"

-git-fetch-script "$@" || exit 1
+git-fetch-script "$ORIGIN" || exit 1

 git-resolve-script \
 	"$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/HEAD)" \

Re: suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/

[Junio C Hamano]

Jeff Carr <jcarr@linuxmachines.com> writes:

> So my small "feature" request reduces to adding
> something like this to git-pull-script. Thanks, Jeff

Somebody else earlier asked for fetch and pull to default to
"origin" URL, and the necessary change is already in the
proposed updates branch.