Re: multi-project repos

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 18, 2006, 07:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20061118074502.GB2338@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vvelddxcx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> True, except if you did:
> 
>         $ git pull
>         $ git checkout otherbranch
>         $ git show HEAD@{1}
> 
> My real point was that I was wondering if it also makes sense
> for ref-log to record switching branches for the symref itself.
> 
> But after sending that message I thought about it a bit more and
> concluded that it is not an interesting information.  It is more
> code that affects unrelated places even if we were to implement
> it and without real gain, so let's not log symref itself and
> keep the current implementation.

I agree completely.

I have no interest in a history of what branches I've recently been on. All I care about is the history of this branch. And I consider HEAD to be nothing but a shortcut that always points to the current branch... so its darn useful for that.

In retrospect CURR may have been a better name for the HEAD symref but its far too late to even consider changing that, so lets not go down that road. :-)