From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:37:59 GMT
Subject: Re: One more shallow tree weirdness - tag not pulled?
Message-ID: <20070412033759.GD18378@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqhuml6z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:32:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The initial clone gets all tags, regardless of reachability.
> Subsequent fetches however only _follows_ tags that point at
> something you have in the repository.  The blob that holds my
> GPG public key is not part of any commit, so you would not have
> that object in your repository, and subsequent "tag following"
> will not see it.
Ah, that explains it. I didn't dig into what the blob contain, just
noticed that it wasn't on the side that I was checking for extending.

> > I created 'git-$N.list' with:
> > find git-$N ! -type d  | sort |egrep -v '\.git/(objects/pack/|index$|logs/)' \
> >  | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 md5sum | sed 's,git-$N/,,g' >git-$N.list
> 
> I do not know what you wanted to do, but I suspect you
> reinvented a rather expensive
> 	git ls-remote git-$N
No, the purpose of this command was to check that the checkouts were
functionally equivalent.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
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