On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > But here we stick the "remotes/" head on, since we are showing both > types. But the right hand side of the symref doesn't get the same > treatment. > > I don't think it's a big deal, but I wasn't sure if it was intentional, It was intentional on my part. I thought appending it a second time was redundant, and the remotes/ prefix on the LHS is just their to distinguish remote branches from local. > I also had a brief thought that reprinting the <remote> is pointless. > That is, printing > > origin/HEAD -> master > > shows what is happening with less text due to the context (i.e., we > already know we are talking about remote "origin" -- and if it isn't in > origin, we already show more). But that is probably a bad idea; that > context is missing if you were to try to do something like "git show"; > <remote>/<branch> would work, but <branch> wouldn't. Exactly. :-) Thanks for the tests. If I had added them myself I wouldn't have you publicly questioning my intent. ;-) j. -- 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
