[xfs-masters] Re: git://oss.sgi.com broke

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> 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).

                Linus