From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:56:21 GMT Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050728153506.GL14229@pasky.ji.cz> Hi, On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:07:01PM CEST, I got a letter > where Johannes Schindelin told me that... > > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > > See above. I would much rather see more flexible git-send-pack. Junio, > > > what about changing its [heads]* parameter e.g. to > > > [remotehead[:localhead]]* ? > > > > IMHO this opens the door for shooting in your own foot. Isn't it much too > > easy to make a mistake with that syntax? > > What mistake? To mix up different branches. With that syntax you can easily push changes onto the wrong head. I might well be wrong here, but I think the most common usage for git-push is to update a public repository, which is done by one or just a few maintainer(s), in which case it is no problem to enforce localhead=remotehead. BTW, this whole multihead mess applies only to Jeffs anyway :-) I just do not see a high demand for mappings of remote and local HEAD names, but rather a high potential of making mistakes (after all, it is not the machine which makes mistakes, it's the human operator). > If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching > someone. -- Alan Cox I like that one. Ciao, Dscho