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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:31:50PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Why should we care about the remote HEAD? Isn't that relevant only
> when cloning to find out the branch to checkout?

You can use the shorthand $foo to refer to refs/remotes/$foo/HEAD. Which
means, in the default case, you can refer to just "origin" to talk about
origin's master branch.

But as Daniel noted, that is really about local preference for "what is
the most interesting branch on the remote". You might want to track what
the remote sets to HEAD, or you might want to set it individually.

-Peff