Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Dec 15, 2005, 01:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20051215013201.GD10680@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyovtaub.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:20:28AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
> 
> >   (i) git-clone-pack url HEAD doesn't work
> 
> "clone-pack url branchname" might work, but the thing is, nobody
> uses clone-pack with explicit heads arguments so if HEAD does
> not work I am not surprised at all.

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> I think extending git-fetch-pack to optionally keep things
> packed would be somewhat painful but the right approach.  Less
> painful and readily doable would be to run clone-pack as is, and
> reorganize the result of "copy of the remote" yourself.  That
> would be a straightforward thing to do if you are using it for
> the initial cloning.

Except that I cannot do the guessing git-clone-pack does (without fetching all the branches) - so I guess I'll make a patch tomorrow which fixes git-clone-pack ... HEAD (probably by checking in write_one_ref() whether it is looking at a symlink and following it first if that's the case) and then in Cogito do

	git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/origin

before git-clone-pack (and repoint HEAD back after it's over). That should do exactly what I need it to, I think.

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