From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:53:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
Message-ID: <20090121195348.GB3589@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0901211443140.19665@iabervon.org>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:50:40PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> I think the ideal thing is to keep the symref as a reminder and just give 
> a non-confusing error message instead of a confusing one. E.g.:
> 
> """
> $foo is set to mean the tracking branch $foo/bar, which does not exist. 
> Use:
> 
>   git remote set-default $foo <name>
> 
> to set a new default branch for $foo.
> """
> 
> (And, of course, add that subcommand to remote)

I think that would be reasonable behavior (and probably a special mode
for set-default to just update from the remote's idea of HEAD).

-Peff