From e395456c536b2458563d5e872a73e8667cc08659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:40:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] cleaning up .git/config parsing

---
 gitTag.proto                                  |  1 -
 reloadGitConfig.go => reloadParseGitConfig.go |  0
 repo.new.go                                   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 rename reloadGitConfig.go => reloadParseGitConfig.go (100%)

diff --git a/gitTag.proto b/gitTag.proto
index eb04274..8c84f2b 100644
--- a/gitTag.proto
+++ b/gitTag.proto
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ message GitBranch {                                       // `autogenpb:nomutex`
         string                      name            = 3;  // the branch name from the config file
 }
 
-// readGitConfig reads and parses the .git/config file
 message GitConfig {                                       // `autogenpb:nomutex`
         map<string, string>         core            = 1;  // map[origin] = "https:/git.wit.org/gui/gadgets"
         map<string, GitRemote>      remotes         = 2;  // map[origin] = "https:/git.wit.org/gui/gadgets"
diff --git a/reloadGitConfig.go b/reloadParseGitConfig.go
similarity index 100%
rename from reloadGitConfig.go
rename to reloadParseGitConfig.go
diff --git a/repo.new.go b/repo.new.go
index 453fa0a..c48fde7 100644
--- a/repo.new.go
+++ b/repo.new.go
@@ -100,3 +100,19 @@ func (all *Repos) NewRepo(fullpath string, namespace string) (*Repo, error) {
 	// todo: use Repos.Lock()
 	return nil, errors.New("gitpb.NewRepo() append failed " + fullpath)
 }
+
+func NewRepo(fullpath string) (*Repo, error) {
+	// add a new one here
+	newr := Repo{
+		FullPath: fullpath,
+	}
+	newr.Times = new(GitTimes)
+
+	// everything happens in here
+	newr.Reload()
+	newr.ValidateUTF8()
+	if newr.Namespace == "" {
+		log.Info("GET Namespace from URL", newr.GetURL())
+	}
+	return &newr, nil
+}