# [PATCH] cg-init shouldn't create master branch when pulling

2 messages from 2005-04-27 to 2005-05-03. Participants: Pavel Roskin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/356

## Pavel Roskin, 2005-04-27 21:33

Subject: [PATCH] cg-init shouldn't create master branch when pulling
Message-ID: <1114637617.15385.10.camel@dv>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1114637617.15385.10.camel%40dv

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Hello!

>From what I see in the current cogito sources, ".git/refs/heads/master"
is never used once it's created by cg-init.  I believe the "master"
branch is only useful when creating a new repository.  Then it's the
only branch in the repository.

When pulling from a remote repository, the "origin" branch is created,
and it should be default.  There is no need in having a separate
"master" branch unless the user decides to create it for local
development.

This patch changes cg-init so that the "master" branch is only created
when the remote URI is not specified.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

Index: cg-init
===================================================================
--- 8dc4ace046ad3545d48088e604012f95e34e24d3/cg-init  (mode:100755 sha1:d249140002888742c46ecba5925cae7c8025ea93)
+++ uncommitted/cg-init  (mode:100755)
@@ -14,17 +14,18 @@
 
 init-db
 mkdir .git/branches .git/refs .git/refs/heads .git/refs/tags
-touch .git/refs/heads/master
-ln -s refs/heads/master .git/HEAD
 
 if [ "$uri" ]; then
 	echo "$uri" >.git/branches/origin
+	ln -s refs/heads/origin .git/HEAD
 	cg-pull origin || die "pull failed"
 
-	cp .git/refs/heads/origin .git/refs/heads/master
 	read-tree $(tree-id)
 	checkout-cache -a
 	update-cache --refresh
 
 	echo "Cloned (origin $uri available as branch \"origin\")"
+else
+	touch .git/refs/heads/master
+	ln -s refs/heads/master .git/HEAD
 fi


-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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## Pavel Roskin, 2005-05-03 20:48

Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-init shouldn't create master branch when pulling
Message-ID: <1115153289.28520.17.camel@dv.roinet.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1115153289.28520.17.camel%40dv.roinet.com
In-Reply-To: <1114637617.15385.10.camel@dv>

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Hello!

Replying to myself.

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 17:33 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> >From what I see in the current cogito sources, ".git/refs/heads/master"
> is never used once it's created by cg-init.  I believe the "master"
> branch is only useful when creating a new repository.  Then it's the
> only branch in the repository.
> 
Please ignore this patch for now.  It turn out that the repositories
with only "origin" branch don't get updated properly by cg-update.
Changes don't get merged, so cg-cancel need to be run after cg-update.

It looks like that the "master" branch is needed, although it's not
documented anywhere.  Or maybe we need some further changes to support
origin-only repositories.  In any case, changing cg-init is not
sufficient.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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