On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:51:36AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I always considered it was a bug that the native transport sends > SHA-1 of HEAD after dereferencing the symref, instead of saying > which branch it points at. Yes, you are right. That was what I was originally after, but then got sidetracked into working on something else and this easy bit was the only thing left done, so I just passed it along. :) > How about proceeding along these lines? Looks generally good. > * We add native protocol extension to let upload-pack to say > what HEAD symref points at, in addition to the SHA-1 HEAD > points at. Update peek-remote to show this information like > this: > > ->refs/heads/master<TAB>HEAD<LF> > 0d5e6c97...<TAB>HEAD<LF> > ... Yet another obscure syntax? Why not just reusing the actual ref: syntax? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - 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