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

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Jeff King <peff at peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:43:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I personally like this line of thought, especially as a thought experiment
>> to see what corner cases we could find, but I doubt I will be able to say
>> we covered all the corner cases with confidence without thinking long and
>> very hard.  For now, I do not find this issue worth spending that kind of
>> deep thinking, especially when a lot simpler and easier to explain
>> workaround is available, but others may disagree and perfect your idea.
>
> Yeah, after reading your response and considering a bit, I think the
> simple "don't make HEAD" thing (or at least "don't pull or push HEAD")
> is a sane workaround.

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?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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