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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reducing object store size with remote alternates or shallow clone?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:59:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfwy3vnti.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dePxmEZeCbs4IkjGd-Ig2cma8lknd0XEwVdaypeAxtQDY3EZeSEPA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil> (Brandon Casey's message of "Tue\, 24 Aug 2010 13\:15\:58 -0500")

Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> On 08/24/2010 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> How about doing
>> 
>>     $ LINUS=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>
>>     $ git fetch $LINUS
>>     $ git bundle create myfork.bundle HEAD..master
>
> I think you mean
>
>       $ git fetch $LINUS master
>       $ git bundle create myfork.bundle FETCH_HEAD..master

Thanks, of course you are right.

Strictly speaking, as I know there is only one branch in the repository of
Linus, there is no need to say "master" when fetching, but it would be a
good discipline to explicitly specify what you mean on the command line.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-24  6:59 reducing object store size with remote alternates or shallow clone? Kumar Gala
2010-08-24 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-24 18:15   ` Brandon Casey
2010-08-24 18:59     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-08-24 23:29       ` Brandon Casey
2010-08-25 17:52         ` [PATCH 1/2] t/t5510: demonstrate failure to fetch when current branch has merge ref Brandon Casey
2010-08-25 21:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-25 17:52         ` [PATCH 2/2] builtin/fetch.c: ignore merge config when not fetching from branch's remote Brandon Casey
2010-08-25 21:16           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-25 21:41             ` Brandon Casey
2010-08-25 21:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-09-09 18:56             ` [PATCH 1/2] builtin/fetch.c: comment that branch->remote_name is usable when has_merge Brandon Casey
2010-09-09 18:56             ` [PATCH 2/2] t/t5510-fetch.sh: improve testing with explicit URL and merge spec Brandon Casey

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