Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: avoid local fetching from alternate (again)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 8, 2007, 08:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20071108080446.GJ14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl3iefoj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Back in e3c6f240fd9c5bdeb33f2d47adc859f37935e2df Junio taught
> > git-fetch to avoid copying objects when we are fetching from
> > a repository that is already registered as an alternate object
> > database.  In such a case there is no reason to copy any objects
> > as we can already obtain them through the alternate.
> 
> The regression the patch fixes should be testable with a
> script.  Please have a new test for it.

Hmmph. t5502-quickfetch should have covered this. It obviously wasn't testing the right thing here. I'll figure out why and post a patch to fix t5502.

-- 
Shawn.