2009/2/10 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx>:
> On 2009.02.09 18:32:06 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
>> Teach git branch -{r,a} how to interpret remote HEADs and highlight the
>> corresponding remote branch with an asterisk, instead of showing literal
>> "<remote_name>/HEAD".
>
> Hm, what's the use case for having such a marker? And since only "git
> clone" sets up origin/HEAD, while "git remote add foo git://..." won't
> create foo/HEAD,
git remote add -f ... would create it.
> you would get that marker for origin only. Also, the
> origin/HEAD symref isn't updated, so it doesn't tell you which branch
> is "active" in the remote repository now, but which one was active when
> you cloned the repo.
Maybe there should be a way to update it afterwards.
Santi
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