Re: Looking for a way to turn off/modify ref disambiguation

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 23, 2011, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20110823211536.GA7759@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPRoxBXjL3Y3KRd8R2guX9Ar374sw-pBhz1bCzNZxn1vC6XNPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:26:48PM -0500, Nathan W. Panike wrote:

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>        1.          If $GIT_DIR/<name> exists, that is what you mean
> (this is usually useful only for HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, ORIG_HEAD,
> MERGE_HEAD and CHERRY_PICK_HEAD);
>        2.          otherwise, refs/<name> if it exists;
>        3.          otherwise, refs/tags/<refname> if it exists;
>        4.          otherwise, refs/heads/<name> if it exists;
>        5.          otherwise, refs/remotes/<name> if it exists;
>        6.          otherwise, refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD if it exists.
> ...
> 
> Is there any way to change this behavior, e.g., so that rule 6 becomes
> an error? Say, by setting a config option?

You can remove the remote HEAD reference with:

  git remote set-head origin -d

That will only fix that particular repo, though. There is no config option to disable it for all newly cloned repos.

-Peff