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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-22 12:32:30 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-02-25 12:52:28 -0800
commit024d34cb0813e098c5c0e4ccdacb6a461d34cb6b (patch)
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parentMakefile: Fix compilation of Windows resource file (diff)
downloadtgif-024d34cb0813e098c5c0e4ccdacb6a461d34cb6b.tar.xz
request-pull: more strictly match local/remote branches
The current 'request-pull' will try to find matching commit on the given remote, and rewrite the "please pull" line to match that remote ref. That may be very helpful if your local tree doesn't match the layout of the remote branches, but for the common case it's been a recurring disaster, when "request-pull" is done against a delayed remote update, and it rewrites the target branch randomly to some other branch name that happens to have the same expected SHA1 (or more commonly, leaves it blank). To avoid that recurring problem, this changes "git request-pull" so that it matches the ref name to be pulled against the *local* repository, and then warns if the remote repository does not have that exact same branch or tag name and content. This means that git request-pull will never rewrite the ref-name you gave it. If the local branch name is "xyzzy", that is the only branch name that request-pull will ask the other side to fetch. If the remote has that branch under a different name, that's your problem and git request-pull will not try to fix it up (but git request-pull will warn about the fact that no exact matching branch is found, and you can edit the end result to then have the remote name you want if it doesn't match your local one). The new "find local ref" code will also complain loudly if you give an ambiguous refname (eg you have both a tag and a branch with that same name, and you don't specify "heads/name" or "tags/name"). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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