Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

And, so, it's a pity I cloned Paul's tree yesterday with the "old" git. 
And from your answer above it seems like some features of the "new" git 
will not be available with this tree, like equally named local and remote 
branches, etc. There isn't a way to convert such a "old style" tree to the 
"new style", is there? Not a big deal, will re-clone at some point, maybe 
when we get local git mirrors...

There's a conversion script to help you convert in place if you care.

Look at the git list for an email that looks something like this:

	Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:16:12 -0400
	From: Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref]
	To: git@vger.kernel.org
	Subject: Upgrade to 1.5.0 utility

	Yesterday on #git DrNick wanted a script to update a pre-1.5.0
	Git repository to be like a 1.5.0 (and later) style repository.
	...

which has a script in it to do this (it uses another script that is 
already in git/contrib/ that just moves all the ".git/remotes" entries 
as-is from the remotes files into the .git/config file)

I haven't tested it myself, so caveat emptor. But the config file format 
really isn't *that* complicated - do the conversion with the script, and 
then just go back and look at .git/config and verify that it looks sane, 
or edit it to match your taste.

		Linus