Re: [PATCH] branch: do not attempt to track HEAD implicitly

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:

quoted

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Rast [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Silently drop the HEAD candidate in the implicit (i.e. without -t
flag) case, so that the branch starts out without an upstream.

Thanks. This has been on my todo list for a while.

Should it only check for HEAD? How about ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD?
Simply anything outside of refs/ maybe? Would that make sense?

I was tempted to say "limit to refs/heads/ and refs/remotes/" but perhaps
people have custom namespaces defined in refs/ hierarchy and for some of
them the tracking may make sense.  How about ignoring the implicit track
if the ref does not begin with refs/ to cover the obvious ones like HEAD,
FETCH_HEAD, etc.?