From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:33:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multiple refs from the same remote in one git fetch
Message-ID: <ebqfjq$ujd$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060814175130.GB16821@mellanox.co.il>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>>> Well, what I was *trying* to do is simply add a more descriptive name
>>> for the linus master branch to my existing tree.
>>>
>>> So it seemed like an obvious idea to add
>>> 
>>> Pull: master:origin
>>> Pull: master:linus_master
>> 
>> Couldn't you do this via symlinks or symrefs? 
>> 
>> BTW. Do we support symrefs other than HEAD, and does reflog works with
>> symref heads, and symlinked heads?
> 
> How?

Have only "Pull: master:linus_master" as the pull line, and make origin
symlink (ln -s $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/linus_master $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/origin)
or symref (echo "ref: refs/heads/linus_master" > $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/origin)
or vice versa.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git