suggestion: store the URL somewhere in .git/
It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always have to go and track down where you got it in the first place. Something like this perhaps:
~$ cat .git/location rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ ~$ git-pull-script
Then something like below could be added to handle that easy enough.
Jeff
git-pull-script renamed from git-pull-script.orig +13 -2
@@ -4,13 +4,24 @@ # cogito.] # +LOCATION="$@" + +if [ ! $LOCATION ] +then + if [ -f .git/location ] + then + LOCATION=`cat .git/location` + fi +fi + . git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive" -. git-parse-remote "$@" +. git-parse-remote "$LOCATION" merge_name="$_remote_name" -git-fetch-script "$@" || exit 1 +git-fetch-script "$LOCATION" || exit 1 git-resolve-script \ "$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/HEAD)" \ "$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/FETCH_HEAD)" \ "Merge $merge_name" +
Hi,
Quoted 3 lines · Jeff Carr
It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always have to go and track down where you got it in the first place.
This is why your original target (when you clone) is stored as "origin".
Hth,
Dscho
Quoted 11 lines · Johannes Schindelin
Hi,
Quoted 3 lines · Jeff Carr
It would be nice if the URL could be stored somewhere in .git/ This makes it a lot easier to update repositories because you don't always have to go and track down where you got it in the first place.
This is why your original target (when you clone) is stored as "origin".
OK. I rsync'ed the repository directly so a origin file wasn't created. That explains that. So my small "feature" request reduces to adding something like this to git-pull-script. Thanks, Jeff
git-pull-script +12 -2
@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@ #!/bin/sh # +ORIGIN="$@" + +if [ ! $ORIGIN ] +then + if [ -f .git/branches/origin ] + then + ORIGIN=`cat .git/branches/origin` + fi +fi + . git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive" -. git-parse-remote "$@" +. git-parse-remote "$ORIGIN" merge_name="$_remote_name" -git-fetch-script "$@" || exit 1 +git-fetch-script "$ORIGIN" || exit 1 git-resolve-script \ "$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/HEAD)" \
Quoted 2 lines · Jeff Carr
So my small "feature" request reduces to adding something like this to git-pull-script. Thanks, Jeff
Somebody else earlier asked for fetch and pull to default to "origin" URL, and the necessary change is already in the proposed updates branch.