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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "David ‘Bombe’ Roden" <bombe@pterodactylus.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Git looks for repository in wrong directory
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:31:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtzf76c60.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807030216.28921.bombe@pterodactylus.net> (David ‘. Bombe’ Roden's message of "Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:16:26 +0200")

David ‘Bombe’ Roden  <bombe@pterodactylus.net> writes:

> git clone r1 r1.git
> cd r1
> echo b > b
> git add b
> git commit -m "b"
> cd ..
> git ls-remote r1
> git ls-remote r1/.
>
> shows that Git searches for a repository in the wrong place. I think the last 
> two commands should output exactly the same but "git ls-remote r1" actually 
> lists the contents of "r1.git". Is that a bug or is this (extremely 
> confusing) behaviour intended?

This is age old usability feature that lets you say "ls-remote r1" even
when you do *not* have "r1.git", and is not limited to the local file
transport but also applicable when peeking a remote repository over the
native transport.

If you have both, you already have found the way to disambiguate ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03  0:16 [BUG] Git looks for repository in wrong directory David ‘Bombe’ Roden
2008-07-03  0:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-03  1:05   ` David ‘Bombe’ Roden
2008-07-03 19:28     ` Junio C Hamano

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