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git download defaults to origin/master

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>, 45187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45187: git download defaults to origin/master
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:27:12 +0100

Hi!

Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> I wonder if there was a specific reason to not use 'revparse-single',
> and instead mostly reinvent it with (resolve-reference ...).

It must have been ignorance on my side, but also the fact that something
like ‘revparse-single’ has to guess what it is you’re looking for (is
this string a commit ID? a tag name? a branch name?), whereas here we
can explicitly state what we want and thus reduce the search space and
ambiguity.

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.

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