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Re: Pushing symbolic references to remote repositories?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 22, 2012, 18:27 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> This is not limited to HEAD, any ref may want to be set up as a symref
> at a remote repo.  For example, I want to set up a symref master ->
> trunk at a repository I have no shell access to.

That is exactly the "hosting side does not give you an easy way so pushing seems to be one plausible but not necessarily has to be the only way" case, so it is already covered in the discussion.

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  1. Dun PealDec 21, 2012
  2. Shawn PearceDec 21, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2012
  4. Andreas SchwabDec 22, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2012
  6. Sitaram ChamartyDec 23, 2012

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