Fetching a newly created branch via bzr-git

Gordon Tyler gordon at doxxx.net
Fri Apr 27 14:36:52 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> HEAD doesn't have to be a symref, it can actually be a separate branch.
> Just as other refs (refs/heads/master for example) can also be symrefs.
> So HEAD isn't really special other than that it is the active branch
> for the working tree.
>

I see. Wow. That really does put a spanner in the works.


> At the moment, bzr-git simply ignores the fact that some things are
> symrefs. They should be converted to lightweight checkouts but we
> haven't added the code for that yet. Again, patches welcome. :)
>

So to make that work, the current colo code would have to support doing the
extra level of indirection required by the lightweight checkout?

Ciao,
Gordon
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