Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:24, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The thing about it being .git/refs/heads/svn/xyzzy is that then you can do > > > > git checkout svn/xyzzy > > > > and start modifying it. Which is exactly against the point: the thing is > > _not_ a branch and you must _not_ commit to it. > > > > It's much more like a tag: it's a pointer to the last point of an > > svn-import. > > Isn't it the same with tracked branches of a remote git repo? > With this reasoning, all heads that git-clone clones aside from the > special "master" should not be under .git/refs/heads, but better > under .git/refs/remotes/<remoteRepoName>/ ? > > <remoteRepoName> is "origin" in the case of git-clone, so .git/remotes/origin > would contain > URL: http://host/repo.git > Pull: master:remotes/origin/master > > Then there would not be the need for the confusing special branch "origin" > after cloning, as namespaces are separate. This is a really good idea. It certainly would prevent polluting the heads namespace. And its a lot easier to explain to someone than the mapping in the Pull line usually is. -- Shawn. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html