Re: [PATCH] branch: do not attempt to track HEAD implicitly

From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2010, 00:50 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=PPx-pLEeR4gLw0KzV_=ZnuqqH_CGc6L7RzU7M@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6ee1f0174b757e25ab873d2d037545ac7db698ee.1292351886.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> With branch.autosetupmerge=always, 'HEAD' becomes a valid target for
> branch tracking.  This is a bit silly, and in fact the code already
> guards against it when attempting it explicitly:
>
>  $ git checkout HEAD^0
>  $ g branch -t foo

missing the "it" in "git"

>  fatal: Cannot setup tracking information; starting point is not a branch.
>
> Silently drop the HEAD candidate in the implicit (i.e. without -t
> flag) case, so that the branch starts out without an upstream.

Thanks. This has been on my todo list for a while.

Should it only check for HEAD? How about ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD? Simply anything outside of refs/ maybe? Would that make sense?

/Martin