Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ilya Bobyr writes: > There is a "git remote set-head" to manipulate HEAD in a remote repository. This is misleading. The command does nothing on the remote side, it only changes the refs/remote namespace in your repository. The purpose is to change what branch the ref remote/ resolves to, ie.

Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-09 Thread Carlos Pereira
There is a "git remote set-head" to manipulate HEAD in a remote repository. Thanks, that is useful (like git symbolic-ref HEAD master-x suggested by Kevin, much better than editing the text file) I agree that this might be viewed as a user experience issue. But I can not come up with a possibl

Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-09 Thread Ilya Bobyr
On 3/9/2014 12:54 PM, Carlos Pereira wrote: On 03/09/2014 07:46 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: After creating a local repository with these two branches, and a server repository with git init --bare, and pushing the two branches: > > git remote add originfoo@bar:~/path/test.git > git push o

Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin
HEAD on the remote repo is indeed used to determine what to check out when cloning. It's quite normal to change it to anything you like. To change it, you usually use git symbolic-ref HEAD master-x instead of directly editing that file. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Carlos Pereira wrote: > On 0

Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-09 Thread Carlos Pereira
On 03/09/2014 07:46 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: After creating a local repository with these two branches, and a server repository with git init --bare, and pushing the two branches: > > git remote add originfoo@bar:~/path/test.git > git push origin master-g > git push origin master-x

Re: howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-08 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2014-03-08 22.37, Carlos Pereira wrote: > Hi, > git newbie here. > > I would like to work with two main branches: master-g and master-x, instead > of the usual master, and apparently git does not like this. > > After creating a local repository with these two branches, and a server > reposit

howto to run git without a master branch

2014-03-08 Thread Carlos Pereira
Hi, git newbie here. I would like to work with two main branches: master-g and master-x, instead of the usual master, and apparently git does not like this. After creating a local repository with these two branches, and a server repository with git init --bare, and pushing the two branches: