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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:20:21 +0200
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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