From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:00:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/.
Message-ID: <20120416150036.GA15009@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F8C338D.1050805@xiplink.com>

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:58:21AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:

> Git is better off describing what's appeared in the remote repo, and not
> worrying about describing how the user might've mapped those things to local
> refs.

That's my preference, as well, so it sounds like you, Junio, and I are
all in agreement.

> (That said, patching fetch.c to do that is a bit beyond me at the moment.
> Where would I find the remote's name for the ref?)

During transfer operations, the remote side of the pair is generally
pointed to by the peer_ref member of "struct ref" (so just use
"ref->peer_ref->name" instead of "ref->name").

-Peff