From: Sven <svoop@delirium.ch>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT]
Message-ID: <loom.20080614T181822-325@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk17horn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

>  (1) I do not think it is unreasonable to change update-server-info
>      to include HEAD in its output.  That would make ls-remote 
>      output over all protocols consistent;

As Jeff said, he has already done this and it will roll with the 
upcoming release.

>  (2) However, the client-side tools that run ls-remote may have to
>      interact with repositories that are managed with older git
>      (including "Today's git").  If they rely on the presense of 
>      HEAD, they _are_ buggy today (and have been so forever), and
>      they _will stay_ buggy when they need to access such 
>      repositories.

Indeed, there is a way to tell Capistrano to use a specific branch: 
Adding ...

set :branch, "master"

... to the configuration in deploy.rb does the trick.

-sven