Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-clone: Add option --branch to override initial branch

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:07:39 -0800

Tor Arne Vestbø <[email-masked]> writes:

> In that case you would either have to ff master all the time
> (requiring a checkout or rebase magic), or do an explicit "git push
> origin 1.6".

or do something like:

$ cat >>.git/config <<\EOF
[remote "there"]
    push = HEAD
EOF

just once.