Possibly neater and simpler way of handling remotes about west HOT 8 CLOSED

This came up while looking at #77 by the way. I'll see how well this works first, as it would help with that issue.

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That is a really good proposal and will solve a lot of issues that might arise from users that do not know how to manage Git remotes.
+1 to this.

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CC @mbolivar @tejlmand

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Agree, this looks very promising.
+1.

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I also really like this idea. I don't understand what "bypass the entire remote system" means. Surely you aren't suggesting removal of that concept from the manifest schema?

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I also really like this idea. I don't understand what "bypass the entire remote system" means. Surely you aren't suggesting removal of that concept from the manifest schema?

No, I think @ulfalizer means not using Git's indirection of remote -> url

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No, I think @ulfalizer means not using Git's indirection of remote -> url

If that's the case that sounds great.

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Yeah, it's just switching to specifying repositories via URLs instead of Git remotes. That removes remote management and gives less ways for things to break.

After the change, we never use Git remotes ourselves, except we create one for the user's sake.

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