Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20051115174213.GO16061@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511150931010.3945@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:33:44PM CET, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > With symlinks, cogito doesn't know which branch it is fetching if the
> > branch is not explicitly specified.
> > 
> > The old behavior was to fetch the "master" branch by default.
> > Currently, cogito uses HEAD, but it cannot read the symlink, it can only
> > read the SHA1. 
> 
> Hmm? Why not just use "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to figure it out? That works 
> with both symlinks and symrefs (and indeed, was added for that reason).

If you show me a way how to do git-symbolic-ref over HTTP, I will be most grateful. :-)

Seriously though, if people have huge problem with having symbolic refs by default, that's unfortunate since we have two possibilities which are not equally tested, but I can live with it - just give me a way to configure that behaviour per-repository, so that I can make GIT use symbolic refs in public repositories (or I can whip up a patch myself at the evening, after all...).

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