Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 29, 2005, 07:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20050729070628.GA24895@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v4qaeqrh3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:24:40AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > One of the Cogito design bits is that branch name is something local to
> > the repository. When you are adding a branch, the local name you assign
> > it is your private thing repository-wise, and doesn't have to have any
> > correlation to other repositories you might interact width.
> 
> I do not disagree with that.  I think branch name is mostly a
> local matter.  However, I happen to think that two repositories
> you use send-pack (not clone which uses completely different
> protocol) to sync one from the other are semantically equivalent
> ones, except that the destination may be a strict subset.  I
> think of it as "a copy I throw at a public place to show what I
> have in my private repository I work in", so,...

Aha, so it seems our problem is hopefully only in terminology, great.

So, what do you mean by "clone" here? And what command should I use for pushing then?

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