From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:48:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Reacting to new commits in a poll-mirror
Message-ID: <20100203104857.GC20450@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzl3rt88c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

also sprach Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [2010.02.03.1432 +1300]:
> So I don't see what you find wrong about writing your script like:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     before_fetch=$(git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname)') &&
>     git fetch || exit
> 
>     git rev-list --all --not $before_fetch |
>     while read rev
>     do
> 	do your patchwork magic...
>     done

This sounds pretty much what I had in mind, and you have convinced
me that this is the right/better approach. Thanks for keeping those
feet on the ground!

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