Re: Remote's 'currently active branch' not HEAD?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2013, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd2opvs18.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130903135034.GS12966@inner.h.apk.li>

Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:02:50 +0000, Michael Schubert wrote:
> ...
>> > happen to have the HEAD *commit* as their tip.
>> 
>> Yes, it picks the first of those:
>> 
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168144
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> And pity, the patches didn't make it that time either...

And the key article in that discussion by Peff points to http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102039 with "I had some complaints at the time, but re-reading it I don't see anything that would prevent us from revisiting the topic now." Reading the patch series from 2008 again, I do agree with J6t's comment that it should be just a regular capability, i.e. like what Peff suggests in his comment on [PATCH 5/6 (v2)], but other than that, I do not see anything that would prevent us from revisiting the topic now, either.