From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: New way of tracking remote branches -- question Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:10:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20070106141032.GB28972@thunk.org> References: <776323.21089.qm@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <7vejq9c9tf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xghariv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Luben Tuikov , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 06 15:12:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3CHu-0005vB-1n for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:12:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751402AbXAFOMl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:12:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751401AbXAFOMl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:12:41 -0500 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:58701 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402AbXAFOMk (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:12:40 -0500 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1H3CMB-0006i2-60; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:17:11 -0500 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3CFk-0007Mn-47; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:10:32 -0500 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8xghariv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:11:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * Your heads/ namespace is of your own. The repository clone > sets up arranges the master branch to start from the same > commit as where you cloned from, and sets up so that changes > made on the master at the remote is merged into your master, > but that is merely a convention that was deemed as the most > common and the most convenient. The other nice thing about the new scheme is that if new branches appear in the remote repository, they automatically show up in remote/origin/*. Before, if new branches showed up after the initial clone, you'd never know about it and it wouldn't be possible to automatically create new branches in heads/ since it might conflict with an originally existing branch in the local namespace. So IMHO, the separation of namespace is definitely a good thing. - Ted