gitgitosis

getting stats from a different branch

I'm using gitosis and gitstats to host some pvt code. Everything is working well, if you dont want to run stats on a branch other than master.

So, question is how do I:

  1. set a branch for gitstats to use (does not seem possible)

    or

  2. set the 'default' branch of this repo to something other than master

Going with option 2 gitstats can just carry on working as it has, and the code will just be the more upto date dev branch.

Thanks

P.S. yes, gitosis is old. :)

Answer

cd /path/to/repo
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/<default-branch-you-want>

also git symbolic-ref HEAD will output the current 'default'

Solution

  • Since you have access to thebare repos managed by your (old ;)) gitosis, you can change the the symbolic-ref for HEAD in said bare repo (see "How do I change a Git remote HEAD to point to something besides “master”".

    Then you can check if gitstats fetch the information from the right branch.