Re: git-receive-pack doesn't understand objects/info/alternates?

> On 4/16/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >When I push a kernel repository to master.kernel.org, where the
> >repository only has at most a dozen changes on top of 2.6.21-rc7, I
> >noticed that it tried to push a *lot* of objects over ssh.  As in:
> 
> This is because git only trusts the the commits in $GIT_DIR/refs.
> Since commit v1.5.1-107-ge3c6f24 (in next) git-fetch first checks if
> we have all the objects that we are going to fetch available locally.
> This could be added for the push. But for now you could add a branch
> in your repo in master.kernel.org to track linus' master branch.