Re: [RFC] git-mergetool: show original branch names when possible

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:59:43PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:

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  1. It does not handle pulls which have no tracking branch (the only
     ref we have is FETCH_HEAD, which is not a useful name :) ).

If there's no useful name, than it's probably hard to do anything at all
about it. Though FETCH_HEAD is not all that useless -- it at least says it is
that that you pull.

But there _is_ a useful name, it's just not a ref (it's the information
from FETCH_HEAD "branch 'foo' of git://..."). In this case,
git-mergetool could pull it out of FETCH_HEAD, as well, but I feel like
we're starting to make a lot of fragile cross-tool assumptions.

Isn't the label "FETCH_HEAD" itself clear enough, without even
looking at it to see which commit it is?