From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: efficient cloning
Message-ID: <20060321091916.GA17125@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q1sgpet.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:42:02AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The reason I would like to avoid .git/remotes/$origin is because
> it is designed to be Porcelainish thing.  The underlying C-level
> git-fetch-pack never sees it; instead the information fed to
> C-level is prepared by the upper layer using that file.  As far
> as I understand, Cogito does not understand it either, except
> that it ships with bash completion code that reads from
> filenames there.

Then why not create .git/refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD at the time of clone
(or later)? Then the core looks for:
  (current order, .git/refs, etc)
  .git/refs/remotes/foo
  .git/refs/remotes/foo/HEAD
The porcelain can take care of managing the contents of HEAD. If there
is no HEAD in the directory, then it cannot be looked up by 'foo'
('foo/remote-branch' must be used instead).

-Peff