From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Allowing override of the default "origin" nickname
Message-ID: <30e4a070801110815q1dee8f0cr7966fc2896e4c790@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3odbsmlkr.fsf@roke.D-201>

On Jan 11, 2008 10:25 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mark, if this change is mainly about the fact that git doesn't allow
> to specify default remote to fetch for detached HEAD (and submodules
> use detached HEAD), why not provide "branch.HEAD.remote" etc., which
> would be used _only_ if we are on detached HEAD (i.e. branch has no
> name).
>
Practically speaking, this would just change the name of the config
variable (from remotes.default to branch.HEAD.remote). However, this
value is used *whenever* the current branch does not have
corresponding branch.<name>.remote, and that is not restricted to
detached heads, it applies anytime the current HEAD is not a tracking
branch. So, I believe remotes.default better reflects this generality
than does branch.HEAD.remote.

Mark