From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:42:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default Message-ID: <20051115174213.GO16061@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:33:44PM CET, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds said that... > 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...). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.