From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:52:03 GMT Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110120215456.GB11468@sigill.intra.peff.net> Hi, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:43:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I personally like this line of thought, especially as a thought experiment >> to see what corner cases we could find, but I doubt I will be able to say >> we covered all the corner cases with confidence without thinking long and >> very hard.  For now, I do not find this issue worth spending that kind of >> deep thinking, especially when a lot simpler and easier to explain >> workaround is available, but others may disagree and perfect your idea. > > Yeah, after reading your response and considering a bit, I think the > simple "don't make HEAD" thing (or at least "don't pull or push HEAD") > is a sane workaround. I don't fully understand the issue, so excuse me if this is totally wrong, but wouldn't a rule like 'you can't create a branch for which there's already a symbolic ref' do the trick? -- Felipe Contreras