From 8de17fac97652d77bffd24e41b0097c863bd752b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:18:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Warn against renaming git-bzr remote; nfc. * admin/notes/bzr (Using git-bzr): ...here, in subsection "remote name". --- admin/notes/bzr | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/admin/notes/bzr b/admin/notes/bzr index a1ef8f64133..13a3beb4ca8 100644 --- a/admin/notes/bzr +++ b/admin/notes/bzr @@ -388,3 +388,11 @@ and skipping the branch. See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00436.html which includes a provisional patch to git-remote-bzr to do that. + +** remote name + +Although Git itself is agnostic about what names you choose for +the remote repo, it seems git-bzr is more likely to get confused. +After the clone as described above, the remote name is "origin"; +changing it is Not Recommended. [Insert 9-hour high-entropy then +mysterious bug w/ JSON parsing errors anecdote here. --ttn] -- 2.11.4.GIT