Re: [PATCH] cg-pull to stop treating "master" specially, fix fetch_local for .git/HEAD

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 10, 2005, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <200511110056.54476.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051110234029.GE30496@pasky.or.cz>

On Friday 11 November 2005 00:40, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:26:18AM CET, I got a letter
> where Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> said that...
> > 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.
> ...
> > Or am I missing something here?
> 
> That this is from 23 August and this change was in Cogito for several
> major releases and noone ever complained. ;-)

You catched me ;-)

Still I think my reasoning holds: cg-clone is also used locally, thus cloning a repository on which you probably are working on, too. If I want to branch off from master, I can use cg-clone to start a new development branch. I suppose this is the suggested Cogito way, from the README; and it makes Cogitos usage so simple, even with multiple development branches: by using a cloned repository for each branch.

Of course, a Git user would use "git branch ...", and switch between branches inside of one repository.

Josef