From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:20:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530901211120o4d06c813l3abf86c657a7ee16@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090121191619.GE21686@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.
Ah, good to know. But then the message should appear only when doing
something with the $foo branch.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 13:02 Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD Marc-André Lureau
2009-01-21 14:33 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-01-21 14:38 ` Marc-André Lureau
2009-01-21 15:24 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-01-21 15:41 ` Marc-André Lureau
2009-01-21 16:19 ` Jeff King
2009-01-21 18:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-21 19:09 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-21 19:12 ` Jeff King
2009-01-21 19:14 ` Jeff King
2009-01-21 19:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-21 19:53 ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 9:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-12 11:39 ` Jeff King
2009-03-12 12:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-12 12:50 ` Jeff King
2009-01-21 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-21 18:31 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-01-21 19:16 ` Jeff King
2009-01-21 19:20 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2009-01-21 14:41 ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-21 14:52 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-21 22:56 ` GUI and detatched HEAD (was Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD) Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-22 14:20 ` Sitaram Chamarty
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