Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default

Pavel Roskin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:03 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

The one format is that .git/HEAD can either be a symlink or
regular file text symref; both variants are tested -- wouldn't
that be good enough?

No.  Even if git itself is tested, other tools are not.  What's worse,
the developers of those tools don't even know they are supposed to test
for two HEAD formats unless they track git changes and mailing lists
very carefully.

In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.

StGIT has been fixed for this in the latest snapshot (but not in the
latest release). It now uses "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to get the name
of the current branch.

-- 
Catalin

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 10:31 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

Pavel Roskin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

In particular, StGIT still needs fixing.

StGIT has been fixed for this in the latest snapshot (but not in the
latest release). It now uses "git-symbolic-ref HEAD" to get the name
of the current branch.

Indeed.  I misinterpreted an error message.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin