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Git Integration: Property Main Branch (Feature #749)

Added by Alf Gaida at 2011-12-02 06:59 am. Updated at 2012-06-05 03:39 pm.

Status:	Closed	Start date:	2011-12-02
Priority:	Normal	Due date:
Assignee:	Felix Schäfer	% Done:	0%
Category:	SCM
Target version:	3.2.0
Remote issue URL:		Affected version:

Description

There should be a property "Main Branch" for Git Repositories. Master is not in any case the branch i want to show in the repository view. In many cases a branch like stable or current release make more sense.

I have seen this Feature on bitbucket and like it.

Associated revisions

Revision 1722e96b
Added by Justin Geibel at 2012-06-05 03:33 pm

Change default branch behaviour for git repos #749

If git repository HEAD points to a branch, use that as the default branch.
Otherwise fall back to previous method.

History

#1
Updated by Justin Geibel at 2011-12-02 09:20 pm

If someone can point me in the right direction I might be able to put together a patch for this.

#2
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA at 2011-12-02 10:59 pm

Bitbucket and github write HEAD file on bare repository.

$ cat HEAD 
ref: refs/heads/master
$ git branch
  latin-1-path-encoding
* master
  test-latin-1
  test_branch

#3
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA at 2011-12-02 11:01 pm

$ cat packed-refs 
# pack-refs with: peeled 
1ca7f5ed374f3cb31a93ae5215c2e25cc6ec5127 refs/heads/latin-1-path-encoding
83ca5fd546063a3c7dc2e568ba3355661a9e2b2c refs/heads/master
67e7792ce20ccae2e4bb73eed09bb397819c8834 refs/heads/test-latin-1
fba357b886984ee71185ad2065e65fc0417d9b92 refs/heads/test_branch
7234cb2750b63f47bff735edc50a1c0a433c2518 refs/tags/tag00.lightweight
1399e2fe59e43d76a15ab922419980d8fa8c9143 refs/tags/tag01.annotated
^899a15dba03a3b350b89c3f537e4bbe02a03cdc9

#4
Updated by Justin Geibel at 2011-12-03 05:18 am

Okay, so I'm thinking about updating the default_branch function so that it calls scm_cmd to run `git symbolic-ref HEAD`. If head points to a branch, this should return something like /refs/heads/master. If head points to a specific SHA then git will return an error so we can fall back to the existing approach.

This has the benefit that I don't have to add a specific setting to the interface for this, but it does require that the user has write access to the HEAD file in order to change the default.