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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:28:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603011325120.22647@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603012126.30797.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>



On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> 
> So the get_sha1() magic should map "origin" to "remote/origin/master" (or instead
> hardcoded master the remote branch from the first "Pull:" line) ?

Right.

> The ambiguity here would be that shortcut names of remote repositories should not be
> used as tag or head names...

Well, it's not so much an ambiguity, since we'd always try tags and heads 
first. So it's just a fallback, the same way the short SHA1 hash is a 
fallback.

> I think a big plus of this would be that gitk can show branches tracking remote ones
> with another color.

Yes. And with a meaningful name.

> To be able to say "git log origin.." you need the above magic, too.

It would all come automagically from just extending get_sha1().

(Actually, technically you'd put it at the end of "get_sha1_basic()")

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27 17:59 git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 18:46 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 18:55   ` Jan Harkes
2006-02-27 19:24     ` Eric Wong
2006-02-28  0:25       ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-28  0:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-28  0:58           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01  6:51           ` Eric Wong
2006-03-01  9:40             ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 15:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 16:07                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 16:24                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 17:14                     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 17:28                       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-01 17:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 18:06                         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 18:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 20:26                             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:28                               ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-03-01 19:11                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-01 20:54                           ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:40                           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01 23:23                             ` Carl Worth
2006-03-01 23:43                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 21:07                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-03-19 19:12               ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-19 19:35                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-19 19:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 19:04   ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: tell the user to not modify git-svn-HEAD directly Eric Wong
2006-02-27 19:34   ` git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:27     ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 20:47       ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:55         ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: correct commit example in manpage Eric Wong

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