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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-mergetool: show original branch names when possible
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:17:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vir78oadg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070821205503.GA16777@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:55:03 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
>
>> >   1. It does not handle pulls which have no tracking branch (the only
>> >      ref we have is FETCH_HEAD, which is not a useful name :) ).
>> 
>> If there's no useful name, than it's probably hard to do anything at all
>> about it. Though FETCH_HEAD is not all that useless -- it at least says it is
>> that that you pull.
>
> But there _is_ a useful name, it's just not a ref (it's the information
> from FETCH_HEAD "branch 'foo' of git://..."). In this case,
> git-mergetool could pull it out of FETCH_HEAD, as well, but I feel like
> we're starting to make a lot of fragile cross-tool assumptions.

Isn't the label "FETCH_HEAD" itself clear enough, without even
looking at it to see which commit it is?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20  7:53 [RFC] git-mergetool: show original branch names when possible Jeff King
2007-08-20  8:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-20  8:52   ` Jeff King
2007-08-20 18:17     ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-21  6:10       ` Jeff King
2007-08-21 14:59         ` Jan Hudec
2007-08-21 20:55           ` Jeff King
2007-08-21 21:17             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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