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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28)
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:31:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr62j0wpc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.1.00.0901301415260.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> How about installing
>
> 	[branch "master"]
> 		remote = origin
> 		merge = refs/heads/master
>
> by default?  It is a safe bet that this will be the case for 99% of all 
> users that want to clone an empty repository (especially if they are 
> putting their public repositories on something like repo.or.cz, where you 
> cannot change the default branch from "master" to something else).

I think this is a reasonable thing to do.  Even though cloning from a void
is not entirely a reasonable thing to do to begin with, because we are
going ahead to allow it now, it would be the best thing to do when cloning
a repository served by the currently deployed git.

We _could_ do better if we were to resurrect my earlier series to add
"where does the HEAD point at" protocol extension, but even then we would
need a fallback like your suggestion when talking to older servers anyway.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-01  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29  2:06 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28) Junio C Hamano
2009-01-29  3:38 ` Jeff King
2009-01-29  3:51 ` Jeff King
2009-01-29  4:02   ` Jeff King
2009-01-29  4:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-29 11:27   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-29 11:37     ` Jeff King
2009-01-29 11:40       ` Pieter de Bie
2009-01-29 11:45         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-29 11:50           ` Jeff King
2009-01-29 12:20             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-30  4:51               ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 13:18                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 16:26                   ` Jeff King
2009-02-01  1:31                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-12  6:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-12 10:51                       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-12 11:04                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-12 21:04                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-12 21:51                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-12 12:32                       ` Jeff King
2009-01-29 11:48         ` Jeff King
2009-01-29 12:04           ` Nico -telmich- Schottelius
2009-01-30  4:59             ` Jeff King
2009-01-29  8:14 ` Charles Bailey
2009-01-29  8:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-29  9:16     ` Charles Bailey
2009-01-30 16:32       ` Charles Bailey
2009-02-01 17:45 ` Kirill Smelkov
2009-02-01 21:34   ` Junio C Hamano

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