From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:34:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] builtin-remote: teach show to display remote HEAD
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0902121627520.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxijjqlb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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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