From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:46:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies
Message-ID: <7vy7nbiv90.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070206072820.GC23866@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> sha1_name: match refs in 'refs/remotes/*/%s'
>
> If no other matches are found for a ref, then look for it in every defined
> remote. This will not complain of ambiguity, since we only do the lookup if
> no other ref matches.

I think the abstraction is wrong -- why do you even need to
iterate over .git/remotes (and .git/config remote.*) when the
only thing this cares about is refs under refs/remotes/*
hierarchy?

Or am I missing something blatantly obvious?