Re: How to not download objects more than needed?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:42:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> git pull git://git.kernel.org/....
>
> and the automatic tag following kicks in, it will first have fetched the
> objects once, and then when it tries to fetch the tag objects, it will
> fetch the objects it already fetched _again_ (plus the tags), because it
> will do the same object pull, but the temporary branch (to be merged) will
> never have been written as a branch head.
Isn't this easily avoided by fetching the tags first?
Jan
diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index b4325d9..9c6748f 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -363,8 +363,6 @@ fetch_main () {
}
-fetch_main "$reflist"
-
# automated tag following
case "$no_tags$tags" in
'')
@@ -389,6 +387,8 @@ case "$no_tags$tags" in
esac
esac
+fetch_main "$reflist"
+
# If the original head was empty (i.e. no "master" yet), or
# if we were told not to worry, we do not have to check.
case ",$update_head_ok,$orig_head," in
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>