From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:02:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
Message-ID: <94a0d4530903120202w22f1f8ecwc6b4d22652afc427@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090121195348.GB3589@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:50:40PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
>> I think the ideal thing is to keep the symref as a reminder and just give
>> a non-confusing error message instead of a confusing one. E.g.:
>>
>> """
>> $foo is set to mean the tracking branch $foo/bar, which does not exist.
>> Use:
>>
>>   git remote set-default $foo <name>
>>
>> to set a new default branch for $foo.
>> """
>>
>> (And, of course, add that subcommand to remote)
>
> I think that would be reasonable behavior (and probably a special mode
> for set-default to just update from the remote's idea of HEAD).

Nobody is working on this, right?

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Felipe Contreras