Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Dec 18, 2005, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20051218003803.GT22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsnzq66x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:29:10AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Not really.  I take this back.  What you want to do I did not
> > understand well enough.
> >
> > HEAD is kinda special.  A hack I can think of is to do ls-remote
> > first and do the guess clone-pack does for full clone case, and
> > then give a specific branch name to clone.  That might work.
> 
> ... and another way would be to do this; I'll put this (with
> fixes if there is some needed) in "master" tonight.

Thanks! This makes it work very nicely and exactly the way I want, even giving git-fetch-pack-compatible output so I can seamlessly switch between the two commands. Very nice!

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