From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Question about bare repositories
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:52:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703161152.37485.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhcslv701.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Friday 2007 March 16 10:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> > Why does a bare repository have/need a HEAD?
>
> To mark which branch the repository owner considers the primary
> branch of the repository. I think "git pull $URL" (i.e. without
Interesting. So it's got a much reduced importance and sounds like it is
mainly as guidance for cloners, etc.
> using shorthand arranged in the config nor $GIT_DIR/remotes/)
> defaults to fetching and merging HEAD from there, for example (I
> say "I think" because it's been a while I did so myself, and we
> might have broken it during the 1.5.0 process, which had a lot
> of work in that area).
Me too; I don't think I've ever used it, which is where my confusion came
from.
Thanks for the help.
Andy
--
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 9:47 Question about bare repositories Andy Parkins
2007-03-16 10:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 11:52 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-03-16 12:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
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