From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: recent change in git.git/master broke my repos Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:42:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4720FF98.5080905@op5.se> References: <86oden6z97.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <20071025150107.GB31196@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <4720FB4E.3030300@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Karl_Hasselstr=F6m?= , "Randal L. Schwartz" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 25 22:43:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Il9Xj-0007d2-Q3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:43:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755648AbXJYUmO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:42:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756622AbXJYUmM (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:42:12 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:52122 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755648AbXJYUmI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:42:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B69173071F; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:41:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PjxusfBcJrM7; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:41:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [172.27.77.30]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA428173071D; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >> Nicolas Pitre wrote: >>> Isn't that called a remote branch that gets updated with "git fetch' ? >>> You can even trick Git into not using the refs/remotes/ namespace for them >>> if you wish. >>> >> You'd lose the ability to do "git diff origin/master" while disconnected >> though. It's quite valuable. > > I don't see how you'd lose anything. > Sorry, I thought you were talking about a config along the lines of: fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* What other trick are you talking about? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231