Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:13:39 -0700
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nmbug-status: Use 'show-ref --heads' for loading
	configs
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:30:56AM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> I consider it a useful feature that it works without the user
> configuring a local branch.  I agree that in more complex setups
> this ambiguity is not as nice, but I'd rather it was only the
> minority of users with unusual setups (e.g. multiple remotes) have
> to do configuration.

I could work up a patch that tried =E2=80=98git show-ref -s config=E2=80=99=
 first, and
only fell back to =E2=80=98show-ref -s --heads=E2=80=99 if there were multi=
ple
matches.  That way folks with only origin/config wouldn't need a local
branch, but folks with multiple config-carrying remotes (or a single
config-carrying remote and a local branch) would have to have a local
config to break the tie.  That's possible, and not *too* complicated,
but I personally prefer the consistency of just requiring a local
config branch.

There's probably a project-size threshold after which you want better
access controls than a shared public repository like nmbug.tethera.net
gives you.  At that point, most folks are going to want their own,
personal public repository.  Once you have that, the folks using the
=E2=80=98config=E2=80=99 branch (maybe not very many?) are going to need to=
 keep their
own local branches.

Cheers,
Trevor

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