From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:26:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-pull to stop treating "master" specially, fix fetch_local for .git/HEAD
Message-ID: <200511110026.18324.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <1124832796.23795.9.camel@dv>

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 23:33, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This patch changes cg-pull so that if the branch is not specified, it
> takes origin's .git/HEAD without first trying .git/refs/heads/master.
> This removes preferential treatment of the "master" branch, allowing the
> upstream to use another name for the default branch.  To get the master
> branch, users would have to append "#master" to the URL.

I think this is wrong.

Why would anybody want to fetch the current upstream HEAD at cg-pull
time? If you do this, and you have no control on the upstream
repository, "origin" will jump randomly around after cg-pull, depending
on the current HEAD of the origin repository.

Besides, this is a incompatible change in cg-pull behavior: I am sure that
a lot of people did a cg-clone in the past without any specific remote branch,
and expect that cg-pull will update their origin to the remote "master".
Now, if they update to a new Cogito with this patch, the next cg-pull
sometimes will rebase their origin to another random branch, depending
on remote HEAD ?!

Or am I missing something here?

Josef