Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)?

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:14:35PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] told me that...

Hi,

Hello,

Naming the remote HEAD differently than the local HEAD is just *wrong*
when you want to push back to them.

But you might not know that in advance. That's one of they key points of
the distributed systems, after all - when you are cloning, you needn't
know in advance that you will want to do local commits, and don't need
upstream approval. You also might not know in advance that you will want
to push them back. Sure, distributed systems are more complicated. If
you don't like complicated things, there's always RCS. ;-)

The only sane way if you have to have different local and remote HEADs
that I can think of, would be to allow only the current local active HEAD
to be pushed to a certain remote HEAD (preferably identified by a file in
.git/branches).

Well, but (if I understand you correctly) that was always the _point_.
It's what I was talking about all the time. :-)

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