From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:27:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Pushing symbolic references to remote repositories?
Message-ID: <7vy5gqq6w8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2ehiiv3nb.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

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.