Re: [PATCH] Re: keeping remote repo checked out?

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: 2005-11-29 17:57:09
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > the two-way merge. That is, what I want to have work is:
> >
> >   server$ git checkout production
> >   work$ git push server:production
> >   server$ git checkout
> >
> > and this should leave the working tree on server with the changes pushed 
> > from work.
> 
> I think the approach Linus was suggesting before he suggested
> the funny refs/heads/../.. symlink idea (honestly, I think he
> was half joking) is cleaner, easier to understand, easier to
> implement and generally makes more sense.  Your work cycle would
> become like this:
> 
>     server$ git checkout production
>     work$ git checkout master
>     work$ git pull server production ;# merge into work's master
>     work$ git push server master:receive_from_work
>     server$ git pull . receive_from_work ;# merge into server's production
> 
> and you make sure receive_from_work is not checked out on server
> (or production is never pushed into) and always do fast forward
> and nothing else.

That's what I'm doing currently, actually (with work pushing to 
"production", but server having checked out "deploy"), and I find it 
annoying to have to do the pull each time and have a separate head. It 
also means that, if the stuff on the server is set up as a hook, it'll 
have to do the locking against concurrent changes to the working tree in 
pull, which is much more complicated than checkout.

It's also somewhat non-intuitive, and leaves a surprising way for the user 
to confuse the system in a way that it can't detect.

	-Daniel
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