From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:39:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Random thoughts on "upstream"
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> you'd essentially have to grab the remote.<name>.push refspec, rewrite
> it to replace refs/heads/*: with $HEAD: and feed that refspec to the
> transport layer

Um, sorry.  It involves two independent steps:

1. add_refspec() $HEAD:$HEAD@{push} to feed to the transport layer.
(@{push} is already in progress; see list)

2. Forcing the transport layer to ignore remote->push and use the fed
refspec instead.  (I'm not sure how to do this yet)