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

From: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: 2006-03-02 07:26:30
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 19:25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 	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.

So the get_sha1() magic should map "origin" to "remote/origin/master" (or instead
hardcoded master the remote branch from the first "Pull:" line) ?
The ambiguity here would be that shortcut names of remote repositories should not be
used as tag or head names...

I think a big plus of this would be that gitk can show branches tracking remote ones
with another color.
 
> The good news is that "get_sha1()" shouldn't be thse at 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".

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

Josef
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Received on Thu Mar 02 07:27:52 2006

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