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Re: [PATCH] branch: do not attempt to track HEAD implicitly

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Dec 15, 2010, 15:26 UTC
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Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > Silently drop the HEAD candidate in the implicit (i.e. without -t
> > flag) case, so that the branch starts out without an upstream.
> 
> Thanks. This has been on my todo list for a while.
> 
> Should it only check for HEAD? How about ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD?
> Simply anything outside of refs/ maybe? Would that make sense?
Good point.  It seems HEAD wins the dwim_ref() over the rest:

$ g rev-parse HEAD ORIG_HEAD FETCH_HEAD 79f9a226d33659f0e6a69429931d66b5f70c9708 79f9a226d33659f0e6a69429931d66b5f70c9708 79f9a226d33659f0e6a69429931d66b5f70c9708 $ g branch test $ g config -l | grep branch.test.

Not sure through which mechanism, however.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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