Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2005, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511150957220.3945@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051115174213.GO16061@pasky.or.cz>

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 
> If you show me a way how to do git-symbolic-ref over HTTP, I will be
> most grateful. :-)

Hmm, why do you care?

If you do a fetch over http, you'd just fetch HEAD directly. If that's just a SHA1 (like it will be with a symlink) you'll just use that as the branch (and don't care about what branch it was). And if it's a symref, you can see what the branch should be and fetch that. No?

			Linus