From: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:44:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-push and $GIT_DIR/branches
Message-ID: <20081107204451.GA10394@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <7vljvvh61y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:08:57AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) writes:
> 
> > I think, that the git-push behaviour is a bit unlogical in conjunction
> > with $GIT_DIR/branches.
> 
> That is because it is illogical to use $GIT_DIR/branches in conjunction
> with git; the former is a backward compatibility wart with Cogito which is
> now dead.

I'm aware, that $GIT_DIR/branches origins from Cogito and are not
recommended. But eg. Documentation/urls-remotes.txt does not reflect
this.

I asume, that you [and probably many other] are not very interrested
in this feature. But would you accept a patch changing the push
refspec to HEAD:refs/heads/<head>?

mfg Martin Kögler