Re: "checkout --track -b" broken? (with suggested fix)

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

The patch to branch.c is a quick fix for this issue.  The resulting code
passes all the tests, but I am not very proud of hardcoding the "HEAD" in
the code.  There must be a better way to do this.

I agree with the change to the test. I think it would be better to 
hard-code "refs/heads/" instead of "HEAD", and I feel like we must have a 
"is this ref name a branch?" function, if only because someone could stick 
"refs/tags/foo" in HEAD, and we should still say it's not something you 
could track, despite it being something different from "HEAD".

But you can track things under refs/remotes/, so...