From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:49:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Add --remote option to send-pack Message-ID: <7vtzuzg26l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > With the --remote option, send-pack will look at the remote > configuration for the specified remote (which must match the > destination URL), and update the local tracking refs to match changes > it causes in the remote heads they track. > > The previous values of local tracking heads are ignored. I didn't actually look at the code of this patch, as I am rejecting the initial round of [PATCH 2/5] this depends on, but this is one thing Cogito did that we don't, and I think it makes sort of sense. We pretend as if we fetched back immediately after we pushed without giving anybody a chance to further update the refs we updated at the remote. I generally do not like "pretend that we did something" when talking about reliable operations (and SCM _is_ all about reliable operation), and this behaviour is exactly it, but I think this one is excusable.