Re: What's in git.git and announcing GIT v1.5.0-rc1

lamikr [off-list ref] writes:

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Be careful, this gives you a old-fashioned repository, the repositories
created by 1.5.0-rc are different, and 1.4.4.4 doesn't grok them:

   * refusing to create funny ref 'remotes/origin/*' locally
  

So that would also not work if one uses git-1.4.4 client for fetching
from the git-1.5.x repository?

That is untrue.  You do not care (nor you would not generally be
even to tell) which version the repository at the remote end was
prepared with when cloning or fetching from a remote git
repository.

A new repository created by 'git-clone' in 1.5.0 will create the
repository with default configuration that uses a new feature to
allow all (present or future) remote branches tracked.  

The feature is
"refspec wildcard" and looks like this:

	[remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

1.4.4 and older do not understand this new feature used in the
configuration, so if you create a new repository by running
1.5.0 clone, you would need to futz with the configuration file
if we want to use that repository with 1.4.4; you would need to
specify the branches you would want individually:

	[remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
        fetch = +refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/origin/next

Even if you are updating to 1.5.0, if you will never be
interested in some of the remote branches, the above to exclude
unwanted ones is a good trick to know.