On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:53 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I haven't taken much time to re-think through the patch/implications of > > this, but I remember running into this and going through some pre-patch > > investigation at some point. > > > > It's really annoying in some cases that "clone" isn't creating the same > > state as "remote". IIRC I was doing some heuristics to figure out the > > remote branch name etc. > > > > Isn't this something we can just change without an option? There were a > > bunch of cases in clone/fetch that were different for no different > > reasons, IIRC I patched one or two of those in the past. But I haven't > > gone through the history of the feature and checked if it was > > intentional. > > I think what Peff outlined earlier was reasonable. "remote add -f", > since it talks with the remote, should be able to learn where their > HEAD points at and set it up. "remote add" that does not talk to > the remote cannot do so and "fetch" could help but we should not > touch existing refs/remotes/$name/HEAD by default [*1*], as the > symref is meant to indicate the local choice of which one of their > branches is significant to _us_ and what "clone" does is merely to > give it the initial value. The new suggested behavior (fetch.updatehead = missing) is that "git fetch" touches $remote/HEAD *only* when it doesn't exist. So if you set $remote/HEAD manually, you would not affected. However, that behavior is clearly not ideal in the long term, since it seems basically nobody uses that feature. Either way I see no argument against adding this option, and making the default fetch.updatehead = never, which doesn't change the current behavior at all. > But when interacting with a remote whose choice of HEAD is always > what the local user wants to follow, letting "git fetch" update > refs/remotes/$name/HEAD to a newly observed value would be a welcome > optional feature. That would be fetch.updatehead = always. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
