From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Riesen" Subject: Re: builtin-fetch code with messy history Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:57:00 +0200 Message-ID: <81b0412b0706190457l730d9b6ehc87471808e553c37@mail.gmail.com> References: <81b0412b0706190313g74765babk38309dd838f3f585@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0706190447y37c3aedbya42b7a3d5703322c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Daniel Barkalow" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 19 13:57:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0cKi-0004dg-IR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:57:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756300AbXFSL5F (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:57:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755411AbXFSL5E (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:57:04 -0400 Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.178]:21442 "EHLO ik-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754598AbXFSL5C (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:57:02 -0400 Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b32so1551471ika for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=r4ZtUvpIboR84isqf77DS1zM1b47LFO/k+a07o/X6Uu58/U0D0FEtDCZL7HlXyxXn7jW6ZS9xojcJ6F0UVNDn3SpsQfG2E4hIJXwcbWwgC38HuEPNNnCDgweLa9hlWd3GA24aSzLzGCGYMnPcx/LvmfNVNIUQF1X3GkhQlpYqdU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KP1npHo0L6/23BeSVyvyjAo8i9SjCWmvo1yRZJaR7urNWqE1ZNxR9rTIfXGnEyt/iYDLFMfmpTpiSHvhz7zMTV0HeCZ+gVayAZchlYNVwoPtovFqyt28ku5v/2Q/z7sKsQ5+7OIEaG2c6o2/et0ojDChLnpMwG6vl5sDEWm33CA= Received: by 10.78.180.16 with SMTP id c16mr2814591huf.1182254220259; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.118.19 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:57:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/19/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On 6/19/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Maybe this is the right time to cut off branches/* and remotes/*? > > > > > > > > Seconded. Don't use the remotes/ since some months now. > > > > But... isn't a git package with code of something like 1.4.4 is still > > > > in some major distributions? > > > > > > Yes, AFAICT it is Ubuntu "the most up-to-date distro there is". At least > > > many questions on the list and in IRC suggest that. > > > > > > So, how about checking (at least for a year) in builtin-fetch, if > > > "branches/" or "remotes/" exist, and fail, with a nice message how to move > > > to config-based remotes? > > > > ...by suggesting to use a nice conversion script which we don't > > have. > > git.git/contrib/remotes2config.sh > > IIRC it was explicitely asked to leave branches/* out of that script, but > the original version had it, and it should be easy to include it again. Right, missed it. Sounds like we have a plan