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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Remotes order in "git remote update"
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:50:04 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> On  9/03, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> | Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:
> | 
> | > It looks like remote repositories are ordered alphabetically by their
> | > local names when doing a "git remote update".
> |
> | I think the reimplementaiton in 'next' that will hopefully be in 1.5.5
> | will keep the list of remotes in the order read from the config.
> 
> Indeed it does, thanks.

Well, technically this is a regression.

If you really want to order your remotes, why not add something like

[remotes]
	default = my-first-remote my-second-remote [...]

to the config?  That is what the (recently fixed in builtin-remote) remote 
groups are for...

Ciao,
Dscho