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LsRemoteCommand and symbolic references [message #1757949]

Wed, 22 March 2017 09:21

Stephen Connolly

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Registered: March 2017

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I am trying to determine how to get the equivalent of

$ git ls-remote --symref origin HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master	HEAD
84f8ba8f163845385ea9827d51686e806e47f98a	HEAD

I want to extract the information that says HEAD is a symbolic reference to res/heads/master

Now prior to Git 1.8.5, the algorithm that Native Git followed was to see all the remote heads and if there was one ref with the same hash as HEAD... well that was the ref that HEAD resolves to... if there were more than one ref with the same hash as HEAD and refs/heads/master happens to be included in the set of refs that have that hash... well Git would say "oh it's refs/heads/master"

https://github.com/git/git/blob/afd6726309f57f532b4b989a75c1392359c611cc/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt#L289-L296

Am I right in thinking that JGit does not support the capability (and do I need to file an issue to get it supported)?

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