On 5/11/06, Linus Torvalds  wrote:

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>         [branch "origin"]

>                 remote = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

>                 branch master

This is confusing at first read -- is it branch origin or branch master?
>    Anyway, the point is, I think our current .git/remotes/xyzzy files

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>    actually mix two different concepts, and they also end up doing it

>    pretty badly. They _work_, but because of the mix-ups, they aren't all

>    that they could be, and it's fundamentally impossible to make them so,

>    because the mixup really is that "origin" means TWO DIFFERENT THINGS

>    (the local branch, and the remote that it corresponds to)

As you say, this needs to be explained/exposed better to the user.

Now, how about having one .git/config and one .git/branches file?

Different semantics, etc.
> The .git/config file is _easier_ to edit by hand than the remotes. It's

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> easier to copy-paste within one file than it is to work with two

Agreed, but I suspect repo config and branches config travel at

different speeds. Maybe what this means is that if this happens, we'll

start seeing a need for ~/.git/config and /etc/git/config to set

defaults (merge.summary=1 for all my repos, core.sharedrepository=1

for all the repos on this server) where I now I just mostly copy

.git/config around.
Does that make sense?
> I don't see why this is hard.
Must be me... it's not the Perl part... I just do a lot of grep |

xargs | sed stuff in my daily git usage ;-)
cheers,
martin

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