Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511150931010.3945@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1132075295.25640.59.camel@dv>

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Pavel Roskin wrote:

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> With symlinks, cogito doesn't know which branch it is fetching if the
> branch is not explicitly specified.
> 
> The old behavior was to fetch the "master" branch by default.
> Currently, cogito uses HEAD, but it cannot read the symlink, it can only
> read the SHA1.

Hmm? Why not just use "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to figure it out? That works with both symlinks and symrefs (and indeed, was added for that reason).

		Linus