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From: mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler)
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-push and $GIT_DIR/branches
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 21:44:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081107204451.GA10394@auto.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vljvvh61y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:08:57AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) writes:
> 
> > I think, that the git-push behaviour is a bit unlogical in conjunction
> > with $GIT_DIR/branches.
> 
> That is because it is illogical to use $GIT_DIR/branches in conjunction
> with git; the former is a backward compatibility wart with Cogito which is
> now dead.

I'm aware, that $GIT_DIR/branches origins from Cogito and are not
recommended. But eg. Documentation/urls-remotes.txt does not reflect
this.

I asume, that you [and probably many other] are not very interrested
in this feature. But would you accept a patch changing the push
refspec to HEAD:refs/heads/<head>?

mfg Martin Kögler

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07  8:26 git-push and $GIT_DIR/branches Martin Koegler
     [not found] ` <7vljvvh61y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2008-11-07 20:44   ` Martin Koegler [this message]
2008-11-07 22:27     ` Junio C Hamano

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