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Re: FETCH_HEAD question

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2009, 17:34 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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>> Unless dwim_ref() is updated to handle FETCH_HEAD specially, and
>> return not the first SHA1, but the one not marked "not-for-merge".
>> Then the UI would at least be consistent, but this would not be
>> backward compatible.
>
> You cannot fix parsing FETCH_HEAD as a ref (and neither will you be able
> to do with PUSH_HEAD), as it can contain _more_ than one SHA-1s.  This
> still holds true when ignoring the not-for-merge lines, as an octopus is
> a quite real possibility.
An even better argument against than it not being backward compatible. :-)
And there is no PUSH_HEAD.
j.
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  8. Jay SoffianFeb 17, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2009
  10. Jay SoffianFeb 17, 2009
  11. PUSH_HEAD, was Re: FETCH_HEAD questionJohannes Schindelin, Feb 17, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2009
  13. Jay SoffianFeb 18, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2009
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