Re: [PATCH 4/5] remote.c: teach branch_get() to treat symrefs other than HEAD

> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> If you are arguing in favor of arbitrary symbolic refs plus @{u} to
>> work, a patch that allows that, and nothing else, should make sense.
>> Such patch would trigger further discussion, for example, if
>> get_branch() is the right place to achieve that.
>
> What kind of absurd argument is this?  I am trying to solve the @ ->
> HEAD problem correctly.  In the process, I fixed general symbolic-ref
> handling and cleaned up the @-parsing logic.  Does anyone have a
> problem with the fix, or am I missing something?

> So, start the discussion.  What are you waiting for?
>
>> I still see this in the code:
>>
>>         if (!name || !*name || !strcmp(name, "HEAD"))
>
> Remove the !strcmp(name, "HEAD") and tell me what you see.  "HEAD"
> will get resolved just like any other symbolic ref, via the hunk I
> added.