From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:03:32 GMT
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
Message-ID: <20110111180332.GD1833@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110111175621.GC15133@burratino>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:56:21AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Maybe something like
> 
> 	git fetch origin refs/views/2009/*:refs/replace/*

Heh, yeah, that is much simpler than what I did. :)

> A potential usability enhancement might be to allow additional
> replacement hierarchies to be requested on a per command basis, like
> 
> 	GIT_REPLACE_REFS=refs/remotes/origin/views/2009 gitk --all
> 
> along the lines of GIT_NOTES_REF.

Yes, that is a much better solution, IMHO.

-Peff