From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Garbageyard <varuag.chhabra@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change default branch name (server side) while cloning a repository
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:40:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqmw2ytmuk.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427459241861-7627964.post@n2.nabble.com> (Garbageyard's message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2015 05:27:21 -0700 (MST)")
Garbageyard <varuag.chhabra@gmail.com> writes:
> If i now clone the repository on my local machine, then the default branch
> should be pointing to mainline and not master. However, the issue is that it
> still points to master. Am I /wrong/ in assuming that changing the entry in
> file HEAD for a given repository on Git server will change the default
> branch while cloning? If I’m wrong, can anyone please tell me how can I
> enforce this change on the /server/ side correctly?
IIRC, there's a known limitation of the Git protocol which does not
transmit symbolic ref over the network. Only the HEAD's sha1 is
transmitted and the client guesses which branch should be checked out
based on this. But it can guess incorrectly if several branches point to
the same commit.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 12:27 Change default branch name (server side) while cloning a repository Garbageyard
2015-03-27 14:27 ` Stefan Näwe
2015-03-27 16:47 ` Jeff King
2015-03-27 16:40 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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2015-03-29 7:33 Gaurav Chhabra
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