Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch: highlight current remote branches with an asterisk

2009/2/10 Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref]:

On 2009.02.09 18:32:06 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

quoted

Teach git branch -{r,a} how to interpret remote HEADs and highlight the
corresponding remote branch with an asterisk, instead of showing literal
"<remote_name>/HEAD".

Hm, what's the use case for having such a marker? And since only "git
clone" sets up origin/HEAD, while "git remote add foo git://..." won't
create foo/HEAD,

git remote add -f ... would create it.

you would get that marker for origin only. Also, the
origin/HEAD symref isn't updated, so it doesn't tell you which branch
is "active" in the remote repository now, but which one was active when
you cloned the repo.

Maybe there should be a way to update it afterwards.

Santi