Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

On Monday 21 November 2005 00:26, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

	[branches.origin]
		url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git
		pull = master:origin

Two things:
* base names are case insensitive. Repository shortcuts are case
sensitive (and head names, too)
* to get rid of .git/branches/XXX, XXX has to be allowed as
base name. But XXX can contain anything a head name can (including ".").

Not really a problem. Use the ' for ' syntax:

[remotes]
	url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git for origin
	pull = master:origin for origin

Not really nice. We can not have "for" as head name.

What about another syntax for multivalue vars?
Proposed syntax:

  [remote:origin]
    url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git
    pull = master:origin

For this, the parser could return
    remote.url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git for origin
    remote.pull = master:origin for origin

By introducing such a scheme, multi-value vars would fit perfectly
for use for .git/remotes or .git/branches.

Josef