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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: man page for "git remote set-url" seems confusing/contradictory
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:06:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd0yxl6n9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xrebnWe_6P0uGu2yEmXZ0+qjpykjrv39Nhd2hUPzO_96g@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:41:05 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe something like:
>
> "Note that the push URL and the fetch URL, even though they can be set
> differently, are expected to refer to the same repository. For
> example, the fetch URL might use an unauthenticated transport, while
> the push URL generally requires authentication" Then follow this bit
> with the mention of multiple remotes.
>
> (I think "repository" conveys the meaning better than "place".
> Technically, the URLs can be completely different as long as they end
> up contacting the same real server repository.)

Sounds sensible.  Let's see if there is any further input and then
somebody pleaes wrap this up in a final patch ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-18  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-16 12:43 man page for "git remote set-url" seems confusing/contradictory Robert P. J. Day
2018-04-16 16:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-16 16:19   ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-04-16 18:20     ` Jacob Keller
2018-04-16 23:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-17  1:01         ` Jacob Keller
2018-04-17 15:34         ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-04-17 17:41           ` Jacob Keller
2018-04-18  0:06             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-04-18 20:56               ` Todd Zullinger
2018-04-19  4:17                 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-19 17:32                   ` [PATCH] doc/clone: update caption for GIT URLS cross-reference Todd Zullinger

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