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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FETCH_HEAD documentation vs reality
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:16:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd3bb929n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111225173901.GA668@gnu.kitenet.net> (Joey Hess's message of "Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:39:01 -0400")

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> Or yet another way to fix it would be to make git fetch always write the
> intended FETCH_HEAD first into .git/FETCH_HEAD. (When not in --append mode.)
> This seems like perhaps the best fix,...

Sounds good, if you mean "the first one that is marked as for-merge" by
"intended FETCH_HEAD".

Thanks. Please make it so.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-26  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-25 17:39 FETCH_HEAD documentation vs reality Joey Hess
2011-12-26  8:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-12-26 16:16   ` [PATCH] write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first Joey Hess
2011-12-27 18:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-03 23:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-01-04  0:03         ` Joey Hess
2012-01-04  0:12           ` Junio C Hamano

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