From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:10:32 GMT
Subject: Re: New way of tracking remote branches -- question
Message-ID: <20070106141032.GB28972@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xghariv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:11:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  * Your heads/ namespace is of your own.  The repository clone
>    sets up arranges the master branch to start from the same
>    commit as where you cloned from, and sets up so that changes
>    made on the master at the remote is merged into your master,
>    but that is merely a convention that was deemed as the most
>    common and the most convenient.

The other nice thing about the new scheme is that if new branches
appear in the remote repository, they automatically show up in
remote/origin/*.  Before, if new branches showed up after the initial
clone, you'd never know about it and it wouldn't be possible to
automatically create new branches in heads/ since it might conflict
with an originally existing branch in the local namespace.  So IMHO,
the separation of namespace is definitely a good thing.

						- Ted