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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:16:12 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509271414000.3308@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64sm1hp3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The protocol extension I had in mind, which I said is not clean,
> is from upload_pack(), in addition to the existing send_ref()
> call which sends "object-name refname" list like this:
> 
> 4899334e96a076bb8780968c5075b214aa80fab9	HEAD
...
> 
> we could send phony entries like this:
> 
> b92c9c07fe2d0d89c4f692573583c4753b5355d2	deref/tags/junio-gpg-pub
> a3eb250f996bf5e12376ec88622c4ccaabf20ea8	deref/tags/v0.99
> 78d9d414123ad6f4f522ffecbcd9e4a7562948fd	deref/tags/v0.99.1

Yes, it would work, but I really think that there's no downside to just 
having a

	git fetch --tags <dest>

since that's just a few lines of trivial code, with no special cases.

Otherwise:

> We would need to teach git-clone and git-fetch to ignore deref/
> if they do not already do so.

in general, it's just a really ugly special case, I think.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-23 22:24 Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-24  1:18 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-24  1:52   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-24  2:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-24 12:50     ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-24 17:13       ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-24 18:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 22:33         ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-09 23:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 23:36             ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-09 23:44               ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10  1:01                 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-09 23:47               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 21:25   ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 21:55     ` Brian Gerst
2005-09-26 21:56       ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 22:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 22:29       ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27  4:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27  5:02           ` Tom Prince
2005-09-27  5:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27  9:40               ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 10:14                 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-09-27 12:34                   ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 13:27                     ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-09-27 17:07                 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 17:56                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 18:36                     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 21:16                       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-09-27 21:44                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 22:11                         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-28 17:22                         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-14  6:03                           ` Peeling the onion Junio C Hamano
     [not found]                             ` <46a038f90510140048r30c7ec36n35f77a1ac52c4691@mail.gmail.com>
2005-10-14  8:40                               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 22:37       ` Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27  6:54     ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-09-27  7:25     ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-27 15:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 17:34         ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-27 18:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27  7:46     ` Junio C Hamano

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