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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 14:35:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinLCirA4XP9AOb9piGo9ucMsmrmkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinCSotWC-kbPDJc57NZM29hizYKpA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, if you can't see in the code why a branch called HEAD might
>>> corrupt the remote and I can't demonstrate it with a testcase, maybe
>>> it's not an issue anymore, I don't know.
>>
>> No, it's still an issue, and I believe I pin-pointed it in my first
>> mail. You can try out the patch I sent, and see if that helps in your
>> case. If it does, I think it'd make sense to do something (preferably
>> a bit more robust) with it.
>
> Yes, I think your patch should be applied regardless, as that solves
> _one_ issue.

OK, I'll send out an RFC with some discussion on the alternatives a bit later.

> But there are other issues.

I guess the root of the problem(s) is that there's no way to
disambiguate 'HEAD'. One solution could be to say that 'HEAD' never is
ambiguous, but it feels a little inconsistent... Thoughts, anyone?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17 10:02 Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 11:14 ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 13:03   ` Thomas Rast
2011-01-20 15:05     ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 15:41       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-01-20 16:00         ` Stephen Kelly
2011-01-20 17:32   ` Felipe Contreras
2011-01-20 19:21     ` Wesley J. Landaker
2011-01-20 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-20 20:38   ` Jeff King
2011-01-20 21:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-20 21:54       ` Jeff King
2011-01-20 23:52         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-01-21 17:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-22 12:46             ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-20 13:17               ` Stephen Kelly
2011-04-26 12:09                 ` Stephen Kelly
2011-04-26 18:18                   ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27  9:18                     ` Stephen Kelly
2011-04-27  9:48                       ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 11:29                         ` Stephen Kelly
2011-04-27 11:32                           ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 11:37                             ` Stephen Kelly
2011-04-27 12:26                               ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 12:21                           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-04-27 12:49                             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-02 19:26                               ` Stephen Kelly
2011-05-02 19:43                                 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-03 17:54                                   ` Felipe Contreras
2011-05-03 18:08                                     ` Stephen Kelly
2011-05-03 19:20                                       ` Felipe Contreras
2011-05-04 12:35                                     ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
2011-05-09  7:51                                       ` [PATCH] only warn about ambiguous refs if stderr is a tty Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-09  8:03                                         ` Jeff King
2011-05-09  8:41                                           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-09 10:32                                             ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 12:37                                               ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-09 12:49                                                 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 16:33                                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-09 22:09                                                     ` Jeff King

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