On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:18:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> A surprising behavior triggered the bug report in
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/888: the mere existence of
> the config setting "remote.origin.prune" (in this instance, configured
> via ~/.gitconfig so that it applies to all repositories) fooled `git
> remote rename ` into believing that the remote
> is already there.
>
> This patch pair demonstrates the problem, and then fixes it (along with
> potential similar problems, such as setting an HTTP proxy for remotes of
> a given name via ~/.gitconfig).
I thought it was intentional that any config "created" the remote, even
without a url field. E.g., you can set:
[remote "https://example.com/foo/git;]
proxy = localhost:1234
and then a bare "git fetch https://example.com/foo/git; will respect it.
I admit that "prune" is probably useless without a fetch refspec,
though.
Note that I don't disagree that the rule "it's not a remote unless it
has a url" would be a lot saner. But I have a feeling you may be
breaking some existing setups.
I grepped around in the list but I couldn't find any relevant
discussion. So maybe I just dreamed it.
-Peff
