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 - : 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