From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:23:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch: highlight current remote branches with an asterisk
Message-ID: <20090210122341.GH1320@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20090210115943.GA15387@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 2009.02.10 06:59:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:50:36PM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> > Yeah, as I said in the other mail, having it as a default would make add
> > -m quite pointless.
> 
> Not necessarily. You might be interested in some other branch that isn't
> their HEAD. So yes, you would hopefully be using it much less because we
> would be guessing what you wanted to put there instead of making you
> type it. But it would still be useful as an override.

I guess you read that in the wrong context (or I replied in the wrong
context). What I meant is that it would be bad if "git remote update" or
"git fetch <remote>" or whatever would update <remote>/HEAD
automatically, as that would kill what you have setup with -m.

Using -m as an override for the automatic guessing makes sense, sure.
It's even what the docs say how it's supposed to work already (it just
doesn't create <remote>/HEAD at all atm, unless -m is given).

Björn