Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Yup, ref: is fine. Please make it so, but after 1.5.2 ;-). - 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