Re: [PATCH 2/2] nmbug-status: Use 'show-ref --heads' for loading configs

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

"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 ‘git show-ref -s config’ first, and
> only fell back to ‘show-ref -s --heads’ if there were multiple
> 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