Re: Bug in git-remote

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 02:14:56AM -0500, Gennady Uraltsev wrote:

I am on git version 2.20.0

$ git remote

does not show remotes configured in named files in $GIT_DIR/remotes/

I do not think that this is the intended behavior.

It's a known bug.  When 'git remote' was rewritten as a builtin
command in C in commit 211c89682e (Make git-remote a builtin,
2008-02-29) the parts dealing with remotes under 'GIT_DIR/remotes/'
were not rewritten.  I don't know whether that was intended or not,
but storing remote information as configuration was about two years
old back then.  Given that since then '$GIT_DIR/remotes/' got marked
as "This mechanism is legacy and not likely to be found in modern
repositories", I'm not sure it's worth fixing.  Perhaps it's time for
calling it deprecated.

In particular:

$ git init --bare test.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/guraltsev/admin/test/git/test.git/

$ cd test.git

$ mkdir -p remotes
mkdir: created directory 'remotes'

$ echo -e "URL: /testremote.git \n Push: *:* \n Pull:
refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/testremote/* " > remotes/testremote

$ git remote

$ git remote show testremote
fatal: '/testremote.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.



The second to last command should show testremote as a remote.


Best,

Gennady