From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:55:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: do not attempt to track HEAD implicitly
Message-ID: <7vsjxxj640.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201012151626.35366.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> > Silently drop the HEAD candidate in the implicit (i.e. without -t
>> > flag) case, so that the branch starts out without an upstream.
>> 
>> Thanks. This has been on my todo list for a while.
>> 
>> Should it only check for HEAD? How about ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD?
>> Simply anything outside of refs/ maybe? Would that make sense?

I was tempted to say "limit to refs/heads/ and refs/remotes/" but perhaps
people have custom namespaces defined in refs/ hierarchy and for some of
them the tracking may make sense.  How about ignoring the implicit track
if the ref does not begin with refs/ to cover the obvious ones like HEAD,
FETCH_HEAD, etc.?