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

[W. Trevor King]

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.

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
‘config’ branch (maybe not very many?) are going to need to keep their
own local branches.

Cheers,
Trevor

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