On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:50:40PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > >> I think the ideal thing is to keep the symref as a reminder and just give >> a non-confusing error message instead of a confusing one. E.g.: >> >> """ >> $foo is set to mean the tracking branch $foo/bar, which does not exist. >> Use: >> >> git remote set-default $foo <name> >> >> to set a new default branch for $foo. >> """ >> >> (And, of course, add that subcommand to remote) > > I think that would be reasonable behavior (and probably a special mode > for set-default to just update from the remote's idea of HEAD). Nobody is working on this, right? -- 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