Proposal for branching policy towards KF5

[Thomas Lübking]

On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 11:15:29 CEST, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Thomas Lübking
> <thomas.luebking at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 05:04:10 CEST, Michael Pyne wrote:
>>> On Fri, July 19, 2013 00:21:21 David Faure wrote: ...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> git symbolic-ref refs/heads/NEXT refs/heads/master
>> or for workspace/libs
>> git symbolic-ref refs/heads/NEXT refs/heads/KDE/4.11
>> 
>> eventually also
>> git symbolic-ref refs/heads/CURRENT refs/heads/KDE/4.11
>> 
>> and then at some point
>> git symbolic-ref --delete refs/heads/CURRENT
>> git symbolic-ref refs/heads/CURRENT refs/heads/KDE/4.12
>
> It would appear that "git remote update" does not handle symbolic refs
> at all (at least it does not handle HEAD)

Tried recently?
HEAD used to be a symbolic link rather than a symbolic-ref; Technically, the symbolic ref is ("now") just a ref that instead

$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
65dd83dfb5593eebaec44b71925c15cee5955e9a

contains

$ cat .git/refs/heads/NEXT
ref: refs/heads/master

Not sure why it would not be passed around like any other ref - but i really don't know ;-)

Norm!
Thomas