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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] server info: Add HEAD to info/refs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:36:00 -0700
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:51:36AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I always considered it was a bug that the native transport sends
>> SHA-1 of HEAD after dereferencing the symref, instead of saying
>> which branch it points at.
>
> Yes, you are right. That was what I was originally after, but then got
> sidetracked into working on something else and this easy bit was the
> only thing left done, so I just passed it along. :)
>
>> How about proceeding along these lines?
>
> Looks generally good.
>
>>  * We add native protocol extension to let upload-pack to say
>>    what HEAD symref points at, in addition to the SHA-1 HEAD
>>    points at.  Update peek-remote to show this information like
>>    this:
>> 
>> 	->refs/heads/master<TAB>HEAD<LF>
>>         0d5e6c97...<TAB>HEAD<LF>
>> 	...
>
> Yet another obscure syntax? Why not just reusing the actual ref: syntax?

Yup, ref: is fine.  Please make it so, but after 1.5.2 ;-).