From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] git/push with refs not in refs/heads
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:11:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPI8QYi675yS1sar@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YPIup1s5B74YO/YH@alice>
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Anthony Martin wrote:
> Is there interest in allowing git/push to send an
> arbitrary ref to a remote repository? Right now
> the ref has to be a branch in refs/heads.
>
> My usual way of working with git on Unix is to have
> a canonical origin that I fetch from and a single
> local branch that I commit to and rebase onto the
> origin before pushing.
>
> Sometimes I want to push the current origin branch
> to a mirror without involving any of my local refs,
> something like:
>
> git push mirror origin/master:master
>
> where the local refs are
>
> refs/heads/master
> refs/remotes/mirror/master
> refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
> refs/remotes/origin/master
>
> the remote refs on mirror are
>
> HEAD
> refs/heads/master
>
> and my own master has diverged from origin/master.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony
jesus christ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-17 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-17 1:13 Anthony Martin
2021-07-17 2:11 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2021-07-17 11:20 ` Anthony Martin
2021-07-17 21:11 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-07-17 3:08 ` ori
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