Re: [RFC PATCH 06/19] Factor ref updating out of fetch_with_import

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Yes, that sounds very reasonable, and I think that's the right way to
go. This leaves us with only one thing, we need a remote HEAD for 'git
clone hg::/path/to/repo' to work and have it check out a branch, I
think a seperate 'head' command might be appropriate? If supported it
returns the which local symref (e.g. 'refs/heads/trunkr' in the svn
case) should be pointed at by HEAD. If not supported we can just not
set it and clone will give the default 'no remote HEAD, nothing
checked out' message, which would probably be best for p4?

Why not have the regular list report:

@refs/heads/trunkr HEAD

or whatever it is, again like native git? That is, SVN would have an 
interaction like:

list

< ? refs/heads/trunkr
< ? refs/heads/my-branch
< ? refs/tags/v1.0
< @refs/heads/trunkr HEAD
<

This is similar to the response from the curl helper, except that it uses 
"?" for the sha1s because it doesn't know them until they're imported.

	-Daniel
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