Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 1, 2006, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603011325120.22647@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603012126.30797.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

> 
> So the get_sha1() magic should map "origin" to "remote/origin/master" (or instead
> hardcoded master the remote branch from the first "Pull:" line) ?

Right.

> The ambiguity here would be that shortcut names of remote repositories should not be
> used as tag or head names...

Well, it's not so much an ambiguity, since we'd always try tags and heads first. So it's just a fallback, the same way the short SHA1 hash is a fallback.

> I think a big plus of this would be that gitk can show branches tracking remote ones
> with another color.

Yes. And with a meaningful name.

> To be able to say "git log origin.." you need the above magic, too.

It would all come automagically from just extending get_sha1().

(Actually, technically you'd put it at the end of "get_sha1_basic()")

		Linus