Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH git-r3] Remove unnecessary HEAD->branch mapping code

2014-10-03 Thread Peter Stuge
Michał Górny wrote: > Remove the code responsible for recognizing which branch HEAD pointed > out to since it was unsafe and unnecessarily complex. A proper match is > not really necessary since all operations can be safely performed on > an opaque 'HEAD' (or rather refs/git-r3/HEAD since fetching

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH git-r3] Remove unnecessary HEAD->branch mapping code

2014-10-03 Thread Michał Górny
Remove the code responsible for recognizing which branch HEAD pointed out to since it was unsafe and unnecessarily complex. A proper match is not really necessary since all operations can be safely performed on an opaque 'HEAD' (or rather refs/git-r3/HEAD since fetching to HEAD directly breaks git