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Re: [PATCH 3/6] Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refs

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2010, 02:18 UTC
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Tomas Carnecky wrote:
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> Remote helpers such as those for svn may chose to save the Git SHA1 -> Subversion
> revision mapping as notes attached to the commits (as opposed to strings in the
> commit message itself). The helper would need to update the notes on each fetch,
> but the user should not be bothered by the presence of that ref. The remote
> helper can update the notes tree through fast-import and then inform Git core
> that it should silently update the notes ref.

What is the advantage of this approach over having fast-import update the notes ref (but not the others) on its own?

Curious, Jonathan

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Message 8 of 21 in “[RFC] New type of remote helpers”
  1. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  2. 1/6 Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list'Tomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierOct 7, 2010
  5. 2/6 Allow more than one keepfile in the transportTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  7. 3/6 Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refsTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  9. 4/6 Rename get_mode() to decode_tree_mode() and export itTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  11. 5/6 Introduce the git fast-import-helperTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  12. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  13. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  15. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  16. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  17. 6/6 Add git-remote-svnTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  19. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraOct 3, 2010

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