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Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 12, 2009, 12:50 UTC
Message-ID
<20090312125031.GA20381@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<94a0d4530903120547rfbbaccra8ee68498688fa54@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:47:24PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:02:08AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >
> >> >>   git remote set-default $foo <name>
> >> [...]
> >> > 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).
> >>
> >> Nobody is working on this, right?
> >
> > Jay has a number of improvements to "git remote" in next, including
> > this. See 104a914 (Merge branch 'js/remote-improvements' into next,
> > 2009-03-05). Especially bc14fac (builtin-remote: add set-head
> > subcommand, 2009-02-25).
> 
> Yes, I looked at that, but set-head will only change the remote HEAD locally.

That was what the thread you were replying to was about. If you are proposing a command to set the HEAD in a remote repository, then no, I don't think anybody is working on that.

-Peff
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  1. Marc-André LureauJan 21, 2009
  2. Michael J GruberJan 21, 2009
  3. Marc-André LureauJan 21, 2009
  4. Michael J GruberJan 21, 2009
  5. Marc-André LureauJan 21, 2009
  6. Jeff KingJan 21, 2009
  7. Daniel BarkalowJan 21, 2009
  8. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 21, 2009
  9. Jeff KingJan 21, 2009
  10. Jeff KingJan 21, 2009
  11. Daniel BarkalowJan 21, 2009
  12. Jeff KingJan 21, 2009
  13. Felipe ContrerasMar 12, 2009
  14. Jeff KingMar 12, 2009
  15. Felipe ContrerasMar 12, 2009
  16. Jeff KingMar 12, 2009
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2009
  18. Felipe ContrerasJan 21, 2009
  19. Jeff KingJan 21, 2009
  20. Felipe ContrerasJan 21, 2009
  21. Adeodato SimóJan 21, 2009
  22. Sitaram ChamartyJan 21, 2009
  23. GUI and detatched HEAD (was Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD)Daniel Barkalow, Jan 21, 2009
  24. Sitaram ChamartyJan 22, 2009

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