From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080614071011.GA29699@glandium.org> <7vprqkh423.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vlk17horn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 14 20:27:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7aTQ-0002vk-Hk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:27:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753789AbYFNS0L (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753740AbYFNS0K (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:26:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57426 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753567AbYFNS0J (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:26:09 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K7aS0-00005S-D1 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:08 +0000 Received: from 151.121.221.87.dynamic.jazztel.es ([87.221.121.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:08 +0000 Received: from svoop by 151.121.221.87.dynamic.jazztel.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:26:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 87.221.121.151 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > (1) I do not think it is unreasonable to change update-server-info > to include HEAD in its output. That would make ls-remote > output over all protocols consistent; As Jeff said, he has already done this and it will roll with the upcoming release. > (2) However, the client-side tools that run ls-remote may have to > interact with repositories that are managed with older git > (including "Today's git"). If they rely on the presense of > HEAD, they _are_ buggy today (and have been so forever), and > they _will stay_ buggy when they need to access such > repositories. Indeed, there is a way to tell Capistrano to use a specific branch: Adding ... set :branch, "master" ... to the configuration in deploy.rb does the trick. -sven