From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:31:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies
Message-ID: <20070206073141.GD23866@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vodo7karm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:25:49PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> So addition to "if unique", we need another DWIM rule that says
> "refs/heads/branch" trumps even when there are branch elsewhere
> and prevents ambiguity rule from triggering.

FWIW, the patch I just posted allows all existing lookups to trump
refs/remotes/*/%s, but will complain of ambiguities between remotes.
But please don't take my patch as a vote for this being sane. :) I just
wanted to give Carl something to play with.

-Peff