Re: 2.0.0 regression? request pull does not seem to find head

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2014, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20140602213456.GB17832@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzjhv2e9u.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:27:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Looks like pull requests no longer work for me on linux.
> 
> Wasn't "does not seem to find head" was very much deliberate?

I'm sorry I don't understand what you are asking here. Same thing happens if I use a branch name explicitly, not just HEAD.

> Linus's patch wanted the users to explicitly tell the tool, without
> tool trying to be too helpful and risking to guess incorrectly.

So this is an intentional behaviour change? Which patch do you refer to?

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> > Some other trees (non-linux) work fine but I didn't yet
> > check whether it's the local or the remote tree that's
> > at issue.
> >
> > Or maybe it's a configuration change that I missed?
> >
> > Note: I have
> > [push]
> >         default = matching
> > configured in .gitconfig.
> 
> This should not affect anything in request-pull, I think.

I just thought I'd mention this. push behaviour is the only big incompatible change I'm aware of between 1.8 which works for me and 2.0 which doesn't.

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