git://oss.sgi.com broke

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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).

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.

	-Daniel
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