From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:04:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch: highlight current remote branches with an asterisk
Message-ID: <20090210130416.GB17305@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090210122341.GH1320@atjola.homenet>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:23:41PM +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.

Ah, OK, I totally misunderstood. Yes, I think we are in agreement, then.

-Peff