Re: [PATCH 4/4] server info: Add HEAD to info/refs

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:51:36AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I always considered it was a bug that the native transport sends
SHA-1 of HEAD after dereferencing the symref, instead of saying
which branch it points at.

Yes, you are right. That was what I was originally after, but then got
sidetracked into working on something else and this easy bit was the
only thing left done, so I just passed it along. :)

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How about proceeding along these lines?

Looks generally good.

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 * We add native protocol extension to let upload-pack to say
   what HEAD symref points at, in addition to the SHA-1 HEAD
   points at.  Update peek-remote to show this information like
   this:

	->refs/heads/master<TAB>HEAD<LF>
        0d5e6c97...<TAB>HEAD<LF>
	...

Yet another obscure syntax? Why not just reusing the actual ref: syntax?

Yup, ref: is fine.  Please make it so, but after 1.5.2 ;-).