From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:33:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default
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:
> 
> 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