Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2006-03-02 05:25:21
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 18:40, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > But if somebody does the get_sha1() magic, and Junio agrees, then I think 
> > it would be a great thing to do.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 	git log origin/master..
> 
> is really not that bad

It really is.

Think like a user. If I pull from "origin", then the name of that thing is 
"origin", not "origin/master" or "o/master". A user doesn't care what the 
remote branch name is - the whole _point_ of the .git/remotes/xyzzy file 
is to give a short description that includes the names of the branches you 
pull from.

The good news is that "get_sha1()" shouldn't be that hard to extend on. 
Just add a case at the end that says "do we have a .git/remotes/%s file, 
and if so, parse it".

				Linus
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