Dear diary, on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:58:42PM CEST, I got a letter
where Josef Weidendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> Hi,
Hello,
> if I clone a remote head other than master via Cogito with
>
> cg-clone host:path#remoteHead,
>
> work on this branch, and try to push back my changes with
>
> cg-push,
>
> I get the error
>
> "pushing to a different head not supported yet".
>
> As far as I can see, there is no support in core GIT to make this ever work
> (at least with get-send-packs), as "git-send-pack" only updates a set of
> heads with the same name both locally and remote.
Yes. It sucks. :-)
> I suppose the best would be to always keep the same head names in cloned
> repositories - it seems to be easier to handle for users. Perhaps the only
> exception would be "master", as one probably would like to pull masters of
> different remote repositories into a local one (without really working on
> them).
I think that would be quite confusing. I mean, you added a remote "bar"
branch under name "foo" by cg-branch-add, but suddenly, branch "bar"
appears as well. Worse if you already have a different branch "bar".
> Thus, what about the following: Each time a remote head other than master is
> cloned, a head with the same name is created locally which is an alias to the
> local master. This way, cg-push almost works out of the box. Following patch
> implements this behavior.
See above. I would much rather see more flexible git-send-pack. Junio,
what about changing its [heads]* parameter e.g. to
[remotehead[:localhead]]* ?
Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:32:01AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that...
> Josef Weidendorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As far as I can see, there is no support in core GIT to make this ever work
> > (at least with get-send-packs), as "git-send-pack" only updates a set of
> > heads with the same name both locally and remote.
>
> Yes, it is my understanding that "clone" means to literally
> clone, not "pull into an empty repository with renamed head
> names", to the core GIT. I do not speak for Pasky, but Cogito's
> "clone" seems to have a bit different semantics (which I suspect
> is more friendly to the users in many situations).
cg-clone serves only for initializing the repository from a remote
source initially.
> Similarly, "push" to the core GIT (that is what git-send-pack is
> about) means performing a subset of "clone" in reverse. This is
> primarily to synchronise two repositories owned by a single
> person.
cg-push aims to serve as a general pushing mechanism, which should work
properly even if multiple people push to a single repository.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone. -- Alan Cox
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