Junio C Hamano writes:
> ... there is no 'for-linus' branch locally, so there is no way for
> him to say
>
> git request-pull initial origin for-linus
>
> unless he creates it locally first.
In real life on the kernel list, for-linus may have to be a signed
tag, and pushed out 1-to-1 nam
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> I looked at 5150.4 and found that what it attempts to do is halfway
> sensible.
I agree that it is "half-way sensible". The important bit being the HALF part.
The half part is why we have the semantics we have. There's no
question about
Linus Torvalds writes:
> That may be very helpful if your local tree doesn't match the layout of
> the remote branches, but for the common case it's been a recurring
> disaster, when "request-pull" is done against a delayed remote update, and
> it rewrites the target branch randomly to some ot
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> Any ideas? The hacky way is to do "| head -1" to take the first
> show-ref output, and then check if you get a different result if you
> re-do it using "show-ref --tags". But that sounds really excessively
> hacky. Is there a good way to d
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> The new "find local ref" code will also complain loudly if you give an
>> ambiguous refname (eg you have both a tag and a branch with that same
>> name, and you don't specify "heads/name" or "tags/name").
>
> But this part might be a bit
Linus Torvalds writes:
> This means that git request-pull will never rewrite the ref-name you gave
> it. If the local branch name is "xyzzy", that is the only branch name
> that request-pull will ask the other side to fetch.
>
> If the remote has that branch under a different name, that's your
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:32:30 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Make 'git request-pull' more strict about matching
local/remote branches
The current 'request-pull' will try to find matching commit on the given
remote, and rewrite the "please pull" line to match that remote ref.
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