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[85.24.230.197]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 2adb3069b0e04-5a4185ad2f4sm7414224e87.17.2026.04.26.01.21.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 bits=256/256); Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:21:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Harald Nordgren To: peff@peff.net Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitgitgadget@gmail.com, gitster@pobox.com, haraldnordgren@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote: add --set-head option to 'git remote add' Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:21:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20260426082106.11266-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0-rc2 In-Reply-To: <20260425220629.GA28590@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20260425220629.GA28590@coredump.intra.peff.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > It already does, doesn't it? Doing: > > $ git init > $ git remote add --fetch origin /path/to/some/repo > $ git for-each-ref > > shows an origin/HEAD link. > > Which I think is not too surprising, as it is just calling "git fetch" > under the hood. I think you are right! So maybe all of this new code is not needed at all. Harald