On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:31:50PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> Why should we care about the remote HEAD? Isn't that relevant only >> when cloning to find out the branch to checkout? > > You can use the shorthand $foo to refer to refs/remotes/$foo/HEAD. Which > means, in the default case, you can refer to just "origin" to talk about > origin's master branch. > > But as Daniel noted, that is really about local preference for "what is > the most interesting branch on the remote". You might want to track what > the remote sets to HEAD, or you might want to set it individually. Ah, good to know. But then the message should appear only when doing something with the $foo branch. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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
