Re: efficient cloning

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mar 20, 2006, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20060320151833.GN18185@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vu09tjy38.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:54:03AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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>  * A new flag --use-separate-remote stops contaminating local
>    branch namespace by upstream branch names.  The upstream
>    branch heads are copied in .git/refs/remotes/ instead of
>    .git/refs/heads/ and .git/remotes/origin file is set up to
>    reflect this as well.  It requires to have fetch/pull update
>    to understand .git/refs/remotes by Eric Wong to further
>    update the repository cloned this way.

I think this sucks the way it is, because you still have only a single namespace for remotes (still quite a huge improvement to the current git situation), but you can have many upstreams. So it would be a quite more reasonable to have:

	.git/refs/remotes/<remotename>/<headname>

This is also how I would like to do it for cg-clone -a (which I planned to implement the last weekend... well... ;). Actually, I think I will stay in .git/refs/heads/ at least for now until git versions with .git/refs/remotes/ in the refs search path will be released.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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