On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
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> So the get_sha1() magic should map "origin" to "remote/origin/master" (or instead
> hardcoded master the remote branch from the first "Pull:" line) ?

Right.

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> The ambiguity here would be that shortcut names of remote repositories should not be
> used as tag or head names...

Well, it's not so much an ambiguity, since we'd always try tags and heads 
first. So it's just a fallback, the same way the short SHA1 hash is a 
fallback.

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> I think a big plus of this would be that gitk can show branches tracking remote ones
> with another color.

Yes. And with a meaningful name.

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> To be able to say "git log origin.." you need the above magic, too.

It would all come automagically from just extending get_sha1().

(Actually, technically you'd put it at the end of "get_sha1_basic()")

		Linus
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