From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] gitfs pre-release 0.04
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:54:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612042054.34157.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061204200349.GX47959@gaz.sfgoth.com>
Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> Not true. Symlink HEAD still works, and we have even core.preferSymlinkRefs
>> configuration variable.
>
> Yes, but it has to be a symlink pointing into "refs/", not just a regular
> file holding a hash value. Which is fine for most purposes but sort of a
> pain for me.
>
> I'll probably have it be a symlink to "refs/gitfs-dynamic" or something and
> then have "refs" be populated with that synthetic file and symlinks to
> any of the normal contents of the refs directory. Not too bad, but will
> take a little bit of code.
You would have to wait a bit. There was talk on git mailing list about
allowing HEAD to point to non-head ref, or even bare sha1, only forbidding
committing to such HEAD (but allowing checkout of arbitrary revision,
not only branch, but also remote branch, tag, or branch~n).
--
Jakub Narebski
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-04 19:40 [ANNOUNCE] gitfs pre-release 0.04 Mitchell Blank Jr
2006-12-04 19:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-04 20:03 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2006-12-04 19:54 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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