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Subject: Re: [9front] git/push with refs not in refs/heads
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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

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