From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: builtin-fetch code with messy history Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:11:55 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0706190313g74765babk38309dd838f3f585@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 19 13:12:11 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 1I0bd2-00043y-EM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:12:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755990AbXFSLMH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:12:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755966AbXFSLMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:12:06 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59733 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755883AbXFSLMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:12:05 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Jun 2007 11:12:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 19 Jun 2007 13:12:02 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18+gSgzSSM+OebKMs3Ha8Vx+nEJspIkePJnXg6pZQ hQt4BGZEPWqMWK X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0706190313g74765babk38309dd838f3f585@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 6/19/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > * when a branch config file section refers to a branches/* remote, the > > > merge setting is used (if one is given), even though this isn't useful > > > either way. > > > > 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? Ciao, Dscho