On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Without $3, git tries to do things that make no sense like "git show-ref
> --heads --tags HEAD"; or that make little sense when requesting a pull,
> like looking for HEAD in the output of "git ls-remote". But from the
> release notes of 2.0 it looks like it's intended and the script is just
> taking shortcuts.
It is *you* who make no sense.
Looking for HEAD in "git ls-remote"? Perfectly sensible:
[torvalds@i7 linux]$ git ls-remote origin | grep HEAD
cc4f9c2a91b7be7b3590bb1cbe8148873556aa3f HEAD
that's the default thing when you don't specify any particular branch or tag.
> Ok, in 1.9.x I used to not say anything; if the new workflow is to
> always specify a tag, that's okay.
Indeed. You have to specify what you want me to pull. Exactly because
in 1.9.x people didn't, and I got *really* tired of getting bogus pull
requests that didn't work, or pointed at the wrong branch when people
had multiple branches with the same contents etc.
> I wanted git to find the matching tag on the remote side when I use "git
> request-pull origin/master URL" with no third parameter, since I never
> request pulls except with a single signed tag.
The thing is, HEAD works. Not for you, because you don't use HEAD. But
because you don't use HEAD, you shouldn't use the default.
I *would* agree to making $3 be mandatory, but there are still people
out there who just use a single branch per repository and no signed
branches. Which is the only reason that "default HEAD' thing exists.
:Linus
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