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Re: [PATCH] Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import.

From
Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 17, 2012, 20:52 UTC
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On Tuesday 17 July 2012 08:48:20 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Florian Achleitner wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2012 22:27:25 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> Hm, that still doesn't look right.  The RHS of the refspec is supposed to
> >> be a _private_ namespace for the remote helper, and refs/remotes/ is
> >> not private.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > remote-svn now uses get_fetch_map to retrieve the local refs. So it
> > respects the fetch refspec in the config.
> 
> No no no no no.  That's transport-helper's job.
> 
> The RHS of the remote helper's refspec really is supposed to be
> _private_.  Improvements to the documentation to clarify this would be
> welcome.

So we want the transport-helper to touch only private refs, i.e. some subdir of refs/, ok. On the other hand I thought we expect git-fetch to update the RHS of the passed refspec (or the default one ). How?

Btw, whats FETCH_HEAD for?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

Thanks, Florian

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Message 16 of 20 in “GSOC remote-svn”
  1. 0/4 GSOC remote-svnFlorian Achleitner, Jul 11, 2012
  2. 1/4 vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notesFlorian Achleitner, Jul 11, 2012
  3. 2/4 Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls.Florian Achleitner, Jul 11, 2012
  4. 3/4 Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata.Florian Achleitner, Jul 11, 2012
  5. 4/4 When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet".Florian Achleitner, Jul 11, 2012
  6. Dmitry IvankovJul 11, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2012
  8. Stephen BashJul 11, 2012
  9. Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import.Florian Achleitner, Jul 15, 2012
  10. Jonathan NiederJul 16, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2012
  12. Florian AchleitnerJul 16, 2012
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 17, 2012
  14. Florian AchleitnerJul 17, 2012
  15. Jonathan NiederJul 17, 2012
  16. Florian AchleitnerJul 17, 2012
  17. Jonathan NiederJul 17, 2012
  18. Florian AchleitnerJul 17, 2012
  19. Add explanatory comment for transport-helpers refs mapping.Florian Achleitner, Jul 17, 2012
  20. Jonathan NiederJul 17, 2012

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