On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Jason Karns wrote:
> > On the other hand, what "git remote show" outputs for HEAD is a name
> > of actually checked-out branch inside that remote repository - it`s
> > what`s stored inside HEAD file of the remote repository root.
> >
> > So it is something set on the _remote_ end, you can`t influence it
> > from your local repository.
>
> So _this_ is not what I expected. Thanks for clarifying.
>
> Considering that a fresh clone replicates the remote's default branch
> as the local default for that remote, I wager (in the majority of
> cases) that these two are the same. It would seem that what I would
> like in this case is a feature change to git-remote-show to show both
> the locally-configured and remote-configured defaults for the given
> remote (similar in spirit to how git-remote-show already shows local
> vs remote information: branches and their configurations for
> push/pull).
Yes, I'd agree. This seems like exactly the kind of information that
"remote show" was intended to display.
It should be a pretty straight-forward patch for anybody wanting to get
their feet wet in git development. The trickier half of showing both is
getting the remote information, but we're already doing that. So I think
any patch would want to:
1. Teach builtin/remote.c:show() to say "Remote HEAD branch" instead
of just "HEAD branch".
2. Add a "Local HEAD branch" that shows the local symref. That symref
is always refs/remotes/<remotename>/HEAD, which can be constructed
with a strbuf. And then resolve_refdup() can be used to get the
pointed-to ref (check the returned flags for REF_ISSYMREF, and
the string return value is the refname).
-Peff
