From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:24:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)?
Message-ID: <7v4qaeqrh3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050728183904.GA24948@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> One of the Cogito design bits is that branch name is something local to
> the repository. When you are adding a branch, the local name you assign
> it is your private thing repository-wise, and doesn't have to have any
> correlation to other repositories you might interact width.

I do not disagree with that.  I think branch name is mostly a
local matter.  However, I happen to think that two repositories
you use send-pack (not clone which uses completely different
protocol) to sync one from the other are semantically equivalent
ones, except that the destination may be a strict subset.  I
think of it as "a copy I throw at a public place to show what I
have in my private repository I work in", so,...