Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
If your current branch would really be a remote branch and you simply
git-fetched, your HEAD would change but not your working tree, and at
that moment things would become very confusing. Cogito would start
showing nonsensical stuff for cg-status and cg-diff (as well as
git-diff-tree HEAD output), but your index would at least still be
correct so I'm not sure how much attention do tools like git-diff pay to
it, the level of messup would be proportional to that.
People want to leave tracking branches checked out, especially
when they are not developers but are "update to the latest and
compile the bleeding edge" types. Support for that mode of
operation was invented long time ago and git-pull knows about
it, and the idea was ported to git-cvsimport recently.
Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:40:30AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...
Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
If your current branch would really be a remote branch and you simply
git-fetched, your HEAD would change but not your working tree, and at
that moment things would become very confusing. Cogito would start
showing nonsensical stuff for cg-status and cg-diff (as well as
git-diff-tree HEAD output), but your index would at least still be
correct so I'm not sure how much attention do tools like git-diff pay to
it, the level of messup would be proportional to that.
People want to leave tracking branches checked out, especially
when they are not developers but are "update to the latest and
compile the bleeding edge" types. Support for that mode of
operation was invented long time ago and git-pull knows about
it, and the idea was ported to git-cvsimport recently.
Why can't such people just have two branches, _especially_ if they are
the "update to the latest and compile the bleeding edge" types?
(Therefore well not likely to be familiar with the Git branching model
at all.)
I mean, sure, it's Core Git so the extra flexibility is nice. But I now
wonder, can you think of any plausible workflow where having one branch
instead of two would be an advantage?
Waah, cg-log git-fetch.sh, /update-head just showed me the change in
git-fetch-script from last August, with no extra work for me. The big
rename barrier annoyances finally gone forever!
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think
I have forgotten this before.