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Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah"

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 23, 2008, 22:25 UTC
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<20080423222505.GF30057@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Something needs to get the code to figure out the remote HEAD, and it 
> shouldn't be "remote" for clone's use, because then clone would take an 
> extra connection, since "fetch" obviously has to connect and "remote" 
> would run before it and in a separate process.

Actually, having "fetch" figure out the HEAD would be a nice feature, since then you could track the remote's idea of HEAD as time passes.

AIUI, we could get by with a single connection over git:// with a protocol extension.

-Peff
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  1. Paolo BonziniApr 23, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinApr 23, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2008
  4. Daniel BarkalowApr 23, 2008
  5. Jeff KingApr 23, 2008
  6. Paolo BonziniApr 23, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinApr 23, 2008
  9. Paolo BonziniApr 24, 2008

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