Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] get_remote_merge_branch: Support for arbitrary mapping

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

2009/6/18 Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
>
> This function is used in "git pull --rebase" to know the tracking branch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
> ---
>  git-parse-remote.sh |   21 ++++++++++++---------
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
> index 5f47b18..1aa6ffe 100755
> --- a/git-parse-remote.sh
> +++ b/git-parse-remote.sh

[...]

> @@ -83,13 +81,18 @@ get_remote_merge_branch () {
>            esac
>            expr "z$ref" : 'z.*:' >/dev/null || ref="${ref}:"
>            remote=$(expr "z$ref" : 'z\([^:]*\):')
> -           case "$remote" in
> -           '' | HEAD ) remote=HEAD ;;
[...]
> +           while true ; do
> +               case "$remote" in
> +               '' | HEAD ) remote=;;

I forgot to say that I changed the HEAD behavior because the remote
HEAD and the local remote HEAD (origin/HEAD) can point to different
branches, as the local remote HEAD represents your preference for
which is the default remote branch.

Santi