From: Josef Weidendorfer Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:53:56 GMT Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)? Message-ID: <200507282053.56786.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: On Thursday 28 July 2005 17:56, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > localhead=remotehead. BTW, this whole multihead mess applies only to Jeffs > anyway :-) GIT/Cogito usage is not about linux kernel only. I actually try to work with a scenario for a project with a few developers, where each one should have its branch(es) in the central repository. I think this could be quite common among future GIT uses. I even would allow the few developers to merge into the central master. > I just do not see a high demand for mappings of remote and local HEAD > names, but rather a high potential of making mistakes (after all, it is > not the machine which makes mistakes, it's the human operator). I also think it is quite confusing to have different branch names for the same head in cloned repositories. But I also think that Paskys scenario is real, where you want to pull branches in 2 remote repositories with the same name. So why not put the name of the remote repository into the local branch name? A remote branch "host1:path#branch1" could be named "host1:path#branch1". The shorthand specified with "cg-add-branch" would be a local alias, i.e. (cd .git/refs/heads; ln -s host1:path#branch1 mylocalalias) I even would find it handy to be able to say cg-pull host1:path#branch1 , and cg-push mylocalbranch host2:path#branch2 should create the alias "mylocalbranch"="host2:path#branch2" and create a entry in .git/branches. Josef