Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)

> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
> > On Thursday 24 February 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with '-'
> >> are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> * jh/maint-do-not-track-non-branches (2011-02-17) 1 commit
> >> 
> >>  - branch/checkout --track: Ensure that upstream branch is indeed a
> >> 
> >> branch
> >> 
> >> This supersedes "do not track HEAD" from Thomas.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "supersedes"? It builds on top of Thomas' patch (v2
> > was rebased on top it), but it does not _replace_ Thomas' patch.
> 
> I judge that the earlier one to special case only "HEAD" a failed attempt
> to the wider problem; what was posted to the list might have been
> relative to it, but what is queued reverts the effect of the previous
> patch and is relative to the mainline.