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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] server info: Add HEAD to info/refs
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:28:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070427042802.GW4489@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhcr2qxtj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:51:36AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I always considered it was a bug that the native transport sends
> SHA-1 of HEAD after dereferencing the symref, instead of saying
> which branch it points at.

Yes, you are right. That was what I was originally after, but then got
sidetracked into working on something else and this easy bit was the
only thing left done, so I just passed it along. :)

> How about proceeding along these lines?

Looks generally good.

>  * We add native protocol extension to let upload-pack to say
>    what HEAD symref points at, in addition to the SHA-1 HEAD
>    points at.  Update peek-remote to show this information like
>    this:
> 
> 	->refs/heads/master<TAB>HEAD<LF>
>         0d5e6c97...<TAB>HEAD<LF>
> 	...

Yet another obscure syntax? Why not just reusing the actual ref: syntax?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
		-- Samuel Beckett

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27  2:06 [PATCH 1/4] Git.pm: config_boolean() -> config_bool() Petr Baudis
2007-04-27  2:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] Git.pm: Add remote_refs() git-ls-remote frontend Petr Baudis
2007-04-27  2:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] [PATCH] git-mirror - exactly mirror another repository Petr Baudis
2007-04-27  4:39   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-27  2:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] server info: Add HEAD to info/refs Petr Baudis
2007-04-27  3:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-27  4:28     ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2007-04-27  4:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-28  6:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] Git.pm: config_boolean() -> config_bool() Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 10:49   ` [PATCH] " Petr Baudis
2007-05-09 15:13     ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-10  2:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-09 15:24     ` Junio C Hamano

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