[Kde-pim] Re: Creating remote branch called HEAD corrupts remote clones

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster at pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't fully understand the issue, so excuse me if this is totally
>> wrong, but wouldn't a rule like 'you can't create a branch for which
>> there's already a symbolic ref' do the trick?
>
> But whose symbolic ref are you checking against?  Your own, or ones in
> somebody else's repository that you haven't recently updated from?

The local ones. That means that somebody can't create a 'HEAD' branch
locally, and can't push a 'HEAD' branch either, as the remote server
would already have a 'HEAD' symbolic link. And actually, if for some
reason I have a FOO_HEAD, and I fetch a branch called bob/FOO_HEAD,
obviously the local symbolic ref without namespace should take
precedence.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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