On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:59:13AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > who wonders where his origin/HEAD symref came from and if > "git remote set-head --auto origin" was ever automatic It is created by "clone", but not by "git remote add". The "auto" in remote's "set-head" means "right now, look up the HEAD on the remote and set our $remote/HEAD based on it". Not anything about being set up or tracked automatically. Perhaps "git remote add" should automatically do "set-head --auto", just as if you had cloned. I think the main reason against it is that doing so requires hitting the network, which "remote add" (without "-f") does not otherwise need to do. Certainly if we are doing "-f", it would not be a big deal. In other cases, we could perhaps fill in the value on the first "fetch", but we may need infrastructure to know when we are on the first fetch (and it is not simply the case that the user deleted $remote/HEAD themselves). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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