Context: recently I've been trying to develop a feature for my Gradle plugin that derives a semantic version from git describe. In order to achieve my next level of feature I need the HEAD Branch. Now, I can get this branch using git remote show <remote> and parsing the output. I'm a firm believer that it should be possible for me to write code, long term even, without the internet; I did this once with my job when I needed to go home to my parents who were very rural and didn't have internet; I was able to keep working without access. I want that for anyone that uses this tool. Problem: I don't want to have to do a network request every time I do a build, in fact I'd rather almost never have to do a network request. Gradle makes reducing the network request to less than once per build something ... unsupported. jgit doesn't expose support for fetching this information. Then I found out that you could do `git remote set-head <remote> <branch>` which appears to behave exactly how I'd want and expect. It doesn't easily solve my problem though because I want my solution to be generally applicable. Ideal Long-Term Solution: git remote set-head happens automatically on lone, and even fetch if it's not set. Explicit setting would override any automatic setting; and it might be a good idea to automatically unset if the HEAD branch disappears from the remote. Could this change be made? is there a reason not to? Please cc, I'm not on the list. -- Caleb Cushing Appointments https://calendly.com/caleb-cushing https://xenoterracide.com
