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

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 29, 2005, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20050729081051.GH24895@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzo6jbme.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:48:57AM 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:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Notice I never used the word "clone" in what I said.

> > However, I happen to think that two repositories
> > you use send-pack (not _CLONE_ which uses completely different
> > protocol)

(emphasis mine ;-)

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> Now, A may happen to be on my home machine and B may happen be
> on my notebook, meaning the owner of A and B are both myself.
> But even in that case I would still work by "pulling from A"
> when I am on B, and "pulling from B" when I am on A.  In other
> words, "pulling" is the only patch flow mechanism I would use.

I use cg-push on my notebook, given that the notebook might not happen to have public IP address in some cases, or might be behind some corporate firewall, or that I'm lazy to ssh to my home machine in order to pull.

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> Pushing is only for publication and I treat it as just a
> GIT-aware rsync/mirror, nothing more.  I have a feeling that
> your workflow is different and you plan to use both push and
> pull for normal patch flows.  This distinction is probably where
> the disagreement comes from.

Exactly. I want much more freedom in pushing, the only requirement being that "the to-be-replaced remote head is ancestor of the to-be-pushed local head". I think (am I wrong?) git-send-pack localhead:remotehead would work just fine for me, the only thing I need is the support for different local and remote head names.

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