Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2009, 01:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr62j0wpc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901301415260.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> How about installing
>
> 	[branch "master"]
> 		remote = origin
> 		merge = refs/heads/master
>
> by default?  It is a safe bet that this will be the case for 99% of all 
> users that want to clone an empty repository (especially if they are 
> putting their public repositories on something like repo.or.cz, where you 
> cannot change the default branch from "master" to something else).

I think this is a reasonable thing to do. Even though cloning from a void is not entirely a reasonable thing to do to begin with, because we are going ahead to allow it now, it would be the best thing to do when cloning a repository served by the currently deployed git.

We _could_ do better if we were to resurrect my earlier series to add "where does the HEAD point at" protocol extension, but even then we would need a fallback like your suggestion when talking to older servers anyway.