Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Jonathan Watt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Jonathan Watt wrote: > > > >> There seems to be a problem with git-push when the working copy of > >> the directory being pushed to came from the magic revision HEAD, but > >> not when the working copy came from some other revision. > > > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73 > > > > Sidenote: I am constantly amazed how people have no problem accepting > > that a CVS-Server has no working directory, but all of a sudden think > > that a Git-server should have one, and auto-update it. > > I think you've misread my email. (Or not read it. ;-)) Well, I did. Thank you very much. > I do not expect git-push to update the working copy of the repository > being pushed to. In fact my complaint would be more that it *does* > appear to modify the working copy (well, not so much modify the working > copy as get confused about which revision the working copy came from) > when the working copy came from HEAD. You changed the current branch via push. HEAD is the tip of the current branch. <rhetoric>What else should happen?</rhetoric> Your notion that the working tree has somehow a magic state that is not dependent on the current branch is somewhat strange to me. Ciao, Dscho -- 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