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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:02:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014150227.GC4856@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810141145491.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > I actually understand now why the tests started failing: the change from 
> > > resolve_ref() to get_branch() as requested by Daniel are at fault: 
> > > get_branch() does not check if the branch has an initial commit.
> 
> So, my vote is to revert back to resolve_ref(), even if it needs more 
> lines.

Yes, I agree, resolve_ref() is the best thing to be using here,
even if it is more code.  get_branch() validates the commit and we
don't want that.  We really just want to know if the current branch
is going to be updated, we don't care to what/why.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-14 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-11 11:38 [PATCH] fetch: refuse to fetch into the current branch in a non-bare repository Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-11 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-12 18:47   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13  9:28     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-12 18:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-12 20:37 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-13  9:36   ` [PATCH v2] Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 14:09     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13 17:57       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 14:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 17:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 18:12       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-13 20:05         ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-14  9:49           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-14 15:02             ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-10-14 16:04               ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-14 16:15               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-14 15:57             ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-14 16:17               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-14 16:52                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-14 17:02                   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-10-14 22:07                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-14 22:53                       ` [PATCH] pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an unborn branch Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 17:08     ` [PATCH v2] Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok Daniel Barkalow

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