On Mon Oct 21, 2024 at 21:45, Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:42:38PM +0200, Bence Ferdinandy wrote: >> But so the long story short here is that for >> (origin|upstream)/(master|main|trunk) we can already have agnostic code with >> HEAD for the second part and with a patch like this we could have agnostic code >> for the whole thing. > > I'm hesitant to pick this up because of what is said in this paragraph. > When you write "(master|main|trunk)", I think you're really spelling > "HEAD". And it's fine to write HEAD in a script when you want to resolve > something to master/main/trunk/etc. without caring which and instead > delegating that to whatever the remote HEAD is. > > But determining the upstream of a branch is already easy to do as Peff > points out downthread. So this seems like a band-aid for scripts that do > not care to perform such a resolution themselves. Agreed, Peff's idea to make querying remote easier is a much better way. Best, Bence -- bence.ferdinandy.com
