Re: git://oss.sgi.com broke

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

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y:/usr/src/git26> git --version
git version 1.5.6.rc0

y:/usr/src/git26> cat .git/branches/git-xfs
git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git#master

Hmm. That's the really old and deprecated branch format.

I'm getting a "Connection refused" from oss.sgi.com, and I think there's 
possibly something broken there, but quite independently of that, maybe we 
can try to teach you another way to set up remote branches?

In your .git/config file, use

	[remote "git-xfs"]
		url = git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git
		fetch = master

because the whole .git/branches/<branch-name> thing is fairly deprecated, 
and cannot handle some things that the .git/config file format can (like 
saying where to fetch into, or how to push back etc).

I think Andrew convinced us to undeprecate that format, because he wants 
to be able to configure each branch with one line in a separate file. In 
any case, remote.c takes care of these things seemlessly.

Well I was kinda attached to the old format but my world wouldn't end
if it went away.

Judging from the Next/Trees contents, I suspect that Stephen uses the old
convenient/compact/one-per-file form too.