From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:33:48 +0700
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> Migration plan:
> ...
> In v1.8.0, we should default to the new default refspecs when creating new
> remotes. However, existing remotes (created pre-v1.8.0) must continue to
> work as before, so we cannot simply remove the implicit refspecs (or tag
> auto-following). Instead we need to make sure that the implicit refspecs is
> NOT applied to the new-style remotes. Identifying new-style vs. old-style
> remotes can be done by looking at the refspec itself (old-style:
> "refs/remotes/$remote/*", new-style: "refs/remotes/$remote/heads/*"), or
> (worst case) by introducing a config variable specifying the desired
> behavior (defaulting to old-style).

How about convert old style remotes to new style? Should it be done
automatically when new git detects old style remotes, or done by
command, or manually?
-- 
Duy