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Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> writes:

>> Yeah, this is all a bit complex, and it takes a while to wrap your head 
>> around it, but I have to say, once you do, the git-1.5.x layout really 
>> *is* very powerful, and it's actually very natural too (but the "very 
>> natural" part only comes after you have that "Aaahh!" moment!)
>
> Aha, so, that's how it is then! Why hasn't anybody explained this to me 
> strait away?!:-))))

Because I and others have explained that to other people on the
list a few times already, perhaps?  The list archive is your
friend.

> .... There isn't a way to convert such a "old style" tree to the 
> "new style", is there?

That also can be found in the list archive.  I think Shawn
Pearce wrote that script using contrib/remotes2config.sh from
the git.git project source tree.