From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:21:02 GMT
Subject: Re: confusion over the new branch and merge config
Message-ID: <20061221182102.906ad046.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7vd56cam66.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:01:21 -0800
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> No, the message says "any REMOTE branch" -- refs/heads/next is
> what it is called at the remote, and that is how the value is
> expected to be spelled; I think somebody added an example to
> config.txt recently to stress this.  The above error messasge
> obviously was not clear enough.  Rewording appreciated.

This seems inconsistent and confusing.  When working with the
local repository, git-branch doesn't list that as "refs/heads/next"
it just lists "next".  Why all of a sudden when trying to fetch
it from a remote repo must a user know about "refs/heads"?

This seems like an internal detail slipping into the user interface.
But maybe i'm wrong, when would it ever be anything other than
"refs/heads/<branch>"?  If it's _always_ "refs/heads", couldn't that
prefix just be assumed if not provided by the user?

Sean