Re: [RFC] git-remote

On 1/5/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Santi Béjar wrote:

quoted

* In "git remote add <name> <remote>": git could use the remote url to
deduce a <name>, like what git-clone does.

That does not make any sense. For example, I track
"git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git" and "192.168.0.128:gits/git.git".
Something very similar applies to the host name: if you track multiple
Linux repos, chances are that most of them are on git.kernel.org.

I guess _if_ you have more than one upstream you are tracking (which is
not the most common case, but hey, git-remote is for exactly that case) it
is not uncommon to have similar urls.

IMHO Junio's proposal is as good as it gets.

I was talking about the default name, so you could do:

$ git clone\
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
$ cd linux-2.6
$ git remote add \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-2.6.git
$ git remote show libata-2.6

Santi