On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Of course a placeholder ref cannot be used as a starting point to > checkout something, can it? It has no commit object available. So if > you did decide to checkout a placeholder, you would need to first > fetch that placeholder. So why not use git ls-remote to list the > remotely available branches? Ah.. ls-remote is the answer. Thanks, placeholders are gone (for me). -- Duy -- 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