Re: Can someone confirm what the contents of refs/heads/master means?

From: David Copeland <davetron5000@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2008, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID: <f95d47890812081142k575264fctd77254ed3386a069@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eaa105840812081135p56eceb97yb968575b11a7f985@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the info :)

The reason I edited by hand is when I was on trunk (e.g. git checkout trunk), I did a git svn dcommit and it worked, but said "you aren't on a branch", so I was concerned I might be in some weird state (i.e. if trunk isn't a branch, can I make a branch off of it?)

Dave

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, davetron5000 wrote:
>>
>> So, I overwrote refs/heads/master with the contents of refs/remotes/
>> trunk (i.e. the SHA-1 of the svn trunk).
>>
>> Things seem to be working; git svn dcommit commits to the trunk and
>> git svn rebase updates from svn's trunk.
>>
>> So, I want to make sure that refs/heads/master actuall does, in fact,
>> point to the head revision of whatever branch is considered "master".
>
> I do believe so, yes. That, or an entry in packed-refs.
>
>> Can someone comfirm this (or provide the actual explanation if I'm
>> wrong?)
>
> Overwriting internal files by hand feels a little too much like work
> for my taste. I would have done something more like "git reset --hard
> trunk" (or, if not on master, "git branch -D master; git branch master
> trunk" ), but of course you can feel free to do things the hard way if
> you prefer. :-)
>
> Peter Harris
>