From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:45:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cogito: Support for implicit remote branches in cloned repositories
Message-ID: <7vhdaoqaxb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051107232122.GZ1431@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> This loses the pretty nice property that 'origin' refers to the HEAD
> branch of the remote repository,...

I think the code actually honors what your HEAD points at;
I did not go into that detail in the above description.

>> *1* I say "by default" here; I think there should be an
>> operating mode for git clone that acts as a straight copy, not
>> even the current "HEAD" -> "origin" renaming.  In fact that is
>> what you do with low-level git-clone-pack.
>
> What would it be useful for?

Cheap back-up, Linus style.