Re: [PATCH 4/4] server info: Add HEAD to info/refs

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 04:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20070427042802.GW4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcr2qxtj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:51:36AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I always considered it was a bug that the native transport sends
> SHA-1 of HEAD after dereferencing the symref, instead of saying
> which branch it points at.

Yes, you are right. That was what I was originally after, but then got sidetracked into working on something else and this easy bit was the only thing left done, so I just passed it along. :)

> How about proceeding along these lines?

Looks generally good.

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>  * We add native protocol extension to let upload-pack to say
>    what HEAD symref points at, in addition to the SHA-1 HEAD
>    points at.  Update peek-remote to show this information like
>    this:
> 
> 	->refs/heads/master<TAB>HEAD<LF>
>         0d5e6c97...<TAB>HEAD<LF>
> 	...

Yet another obscure syntax? Why not just reusing the actual ref: syntax?

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