From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pushing into a repository with working directory?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:32:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459E1B23.4060400@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwt41j1le.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
>
>> Special casing the 'current' branch makes any sort of automated push
>> setup unreliable. Indeed the special case preventing a fetch into the
>> current branch is pretty annoying for the same reason. I would almost
>> prefer to relax that than add the same for push.
>
> How would you relax the fetch case? Fetching into the current
> branch, unless the repository is bare, is always a fishy
> operation.
Is it fishy if the working directory and index match HEAD? If not, then
we could detect that and allow update in that case?
Also, if we had dangling head support we could "leave" HEAD pointing to
the starting commit, and emit a nice fat warning.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-02 4:51 Pushing into a repository with working directory? Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-05 8:51 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-05 8:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 9:32 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2007-01-05 9:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 19:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-08 13:53 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-09 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-09 3:32 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-09 9:15 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-09 13:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
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