From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:25:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah"
Message-ID: <20080423222505.GF30057@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0804231210000.19665@iabervon.org>

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