From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nmbug-status: Use 'show-ref --heads' for loading
	configs
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:51:22 -0300
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"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> 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 mul=
tiple
> 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.

It might be simpler to implement (and understand) to try first the local
config branch and then fall back to "origin/config".

d