From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:09:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7vlk4snpj3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vr6d8apjx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhcdyfe9u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabjm1a0q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vr6crj0jk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmyn4hr8f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmymsjz6x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabijxhk4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwslhg8qe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhccfiksy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vod6k6zg4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v4p7xwsfp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3anb19n7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwskjazql.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5ggipuw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vej6l3lp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1214834970.3382.4.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <7vabh2vaav.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080630155147.009a24b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , krh@redhat.com, git@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, pasky@suse.cz To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 01 01:12:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDSXd-00041Y-Od for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:12:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753360AbYF3XLL (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753313AbYF3XLL (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:11 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47368 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753173AbYF3XLK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:10 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2008 23:11:08 -0000 Received: from almond.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO almond.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.241] by mail.gmx.net (mp039) with SMTP; 01 Jul 2008 01:11:08 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/PG919W4jPD576bY/L9InvIGUuaImXQo5xOsgv8n aq4fstgtbGQzMv X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080630155147.009a24b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > - It's bad to have the same info in two places, and to have to > support two different ways of doing the same thing for ever. It is actually worse: we have three places. > For me the biggest part of migrating would be working out what on > earth the format of the new files is. Maybe it's documented > somewhere undiscoverable, dunno. The easiest way is to git config remote.$NICKNAME.url $URL where you said echo $URL > .git/branches/$NICKNAME Actually, you might even like this command better: git remote add $NICKNAME $URL Many ways to go to Rome, Dscho