From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:13:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-pull to stop treating "master" specially, fix fetch_local for .git/HEAD
Message-ID: <200511110213.54846.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <1131668075.3987.5.camel@dv>

On Friday 11 November 2005 01:14, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 00:40 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: 
> > 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...
> > > Why would anybody want to fetch the current upstream HEAD at cg-pull
> > > time?
> ...
> Correct.  But if it's a concern, I think we could make some
> improvements.  Following approaches could be tried (starting from top,
> using following steps as a fallback):
> 
> 1) Use recorded branch, i.e. the branch name that was used in cg-clone.

This is the "#..." part in .git/branches/origin, and it is already used.

I have nothing against using HEAD for cloning, but the branch name should
be recorded, such that cg-pull always fetches from the same branch.

I think 1) is enough if we add the detected branch name in the #... part
in .git/branches/origin at cg-clone time.

And "detectable" covers the local case, which was my concern here [*1*]

Josef

[*1*] after being told about the "stable HEAD" property of public repositories,
which is correct. I am not even sure that a HEAD makes sense
in public repositories: in my opinion HEAD has something to do with checked out
files, and a public repository usually does not have these. But perhaps
that's only me...