Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 18:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611161027020.3349@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611160932340.3349@woody.osdl.org>

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> @@ -95,6 +100,12 @@ case "$merge_head" in
>  	;;
>  esac
>  
> +if test -z "$orig_head"
> +then
> +	git-update-ref -m "initial pull" HEAD $merge_head "" || exit 1
> +	exit
> +fi
> +

So this is the place that probably wants a "git-checkout" before the exit, otherwise you'd (illogically) have to do it by hand for that particular case.

Of course, we should _not_ do it if the "--bare" flag has been set, so you migth want to tweak the exact logic here.

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