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Re: [PATCH 2/3] builtin-remote: teach show to display remote HEAD

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Feb 12, 2009, 21:34 UTC
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > I have the vague memory, as well, that there's some way for a transport to 
> > report that it actually knows that HEAD is a symref to something in 
> > particular, and so git shouldn't guess.
> 
> I think you are thinking about:
> 
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102039

Actually, I think I missed that thread entirely; I was thinking of earlier work to allow the http transport, when it finds that HEAD is a symref file, to report that there's a ref named "HEAD", with a particular value, and that it's incidentally known to be a symref to another particular ref.

Ended up in be885d96fe0ebed47e637f3b0dd24fc5902f7081, but I don't think anything was set up to actually do anything with the information.

	-Daniel
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  1. 0/3 remote HEAD improvementsJay Soffian, Feb 11, 2009
  2. 1/3 builtin-remote: move duplicated cleanup code its own functionJay Soffian, Feb 11, 2009
  3. 2/3 builtin-remote: teach show to display remote HEADJay Soffian, Feb 11, 2009
  4. 3/3 builtin-remote: add sethead verbJay Soffian, Feb 11, 2009
  5. Jeff KingFeb 12, 2009
  6. Jay SoffianFeb 12, 2009
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  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2009
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