Git Branches: Intuition and Reality

1. Git

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   Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

   

   > which branch on a remote is considered the default

   That part is actually covered by "the default branch in newly created repositories". There are two different places where its done:

   - This is the one you probably mean: [1]

   - This is an obscure feature: [2]. A Stack Overflow comment [3] calls it "one of the abandoned experiments that were being done before the concept of a remote was invented".

   Both of the places use function git_default_branch_name from refs.c [4], which uses config variable `init.defaultBranch` I've mentioned above.

   [1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.43.0/remote.c#L2380-L2383

   [2] https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.43.0/remote.c#L328-L338

   [3] https://stackoverflow.com/a/54132016/1083697

   [4] https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.43.0/refs.c#L671-L705

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3. build-extra

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   Additional files and scripts to help build Git for Windows on MSYS2.

   

4. example

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   The branch_ref.name prints "refs/remotes/origin/test" but git status says "HEAD detached at origin/test"

   So I'm probably feeding the wrong thing into repo.checkout, but I'm honestly not sure what else it should be.

   Funnily enough, git itself tries to do the right thing if pulled in a detached head state:

       From https://github.com/testorg/example

5. gittuf

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   A security layer for Git repositories

   

   It actually does but it's very much in alpha/active development (under the umbrella of OpenSSF with the intent of being integrated into mainline git eventually).

   https://github.com/gittuf/gittuf

6. GitExtensions

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   Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).

   

   I agree that git is almost asking you to juggle commits.

   My preference is to use temporary branches and cherry-picking instead of stashing; I mostly use a gui* to work with git so it is easy to select the two or three commits to cherry-picking or see visually if an interactive rebase would work.

   * https://gitextensions.github.io/

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