Re: "checkout --track -b" broken? (with suggested fix)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2008, 23:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vskqug4fy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0810171113340.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

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> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> The patch to branch.c is a quick fix for this issue.  The resulting code
>> passes all the tests, but I am not very proud of hardcoding the "HEAD" in
>> the code.  There must be a better way to do this.
>
> I agree with the change to the test. I think it would be better to 
> hard-code "refs/heads/" instead of "HEAD", and I feel like we must have a 
> "is this ref name a branch?" function, if only because someone could stick 
> "refs/tags/foo" in HEAD, and we should still say it's not something you 
> could track, despite it being something different from "HEAD".

But you can track things under refs/remotes/, so...