From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: Deleting remote branch pointed by remote HEAD Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:02:08 +0200 Message-ID: <94a0d4530903120202w22f1f8ecwc6b4d22652afc427@mail.gmail.com> References: <49773240.7090605@drmicha.warpmail.net> <49773E48.90302@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20090121161940.GA20702@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090121191219.GD21686@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090121191408.GA22958@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090121195348.GB3589@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Daniel Barkalow , Michael J Gruber , =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6kgTHVyZWF1?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 12 10:03:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhgpR-0001Ti-12 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:03:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751451AbZCLJCN convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:02:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751086AbZCLJCM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:02:12 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:54986 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750845AbZCLJCL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:02:11 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so86524fgg.17 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:02:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G6DhF2308cpqoHAB/WlpseC/bnLDYLfIutYQaPXMfDE=; b=Em2mpKMWmklsDD3KJNFM1DQbOI6+6BbfNG1/vrHOdM7SSYkgdKwU1jKkZrEIVL77S3 U3fOci83xY9zDObjpApTP39QNBd4LtRldwq40LlG/lzKFxdJMWGx7gM59FX2iEovAg3l Z8NhJcBMABZZ4Wnb4Yb4l0FaUVVlL+orVT+UM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JYDvcbB7/a7GgNMOkKGt+J5/KVQEjpSFnObSNMlvzYS/zLwxQtYhqceLumA8tvD+Rf 3lEATSv+WR7TCr9UKw2TP3DH1tZJDUdyWoOc+adZF7FTZ7lG/E46WwnsrAvcvIWvh0zq v3bRTQ9KZTQ/ETWSNbT+EJabBnNs9ndVI0dyo= Received: by 10.86.94.11 with SMTP id r11mr6590117fgb.11.1236848528275; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:02:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090121195348.GB3589@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:50:40PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > >> I think the ideal thing is to keep the symref as a reminder and just= give >> a non-confusing error message instead of a confusing one. E.g.: >> >> """ >> $foo is set to mean the tracking branch $foo/bar, which does not exi= st. >> Use: >> >> =C2=A0 git remote set-default $foo >> >> to set a new default branch for $foo. >> """ >> >> (And, of course, add that subcommand to remote) > > I think that would be reasonable behavior (and probably a special mod= e > for set-default to just update from the remote's idea of HEAD). Nobody is working on this, right? --=20 =46elipe Contreras