From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:11:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
Message-ID: <20110609001150.GA19715@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4cv29oe.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:19:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > The third test demonstrates a bug in git's side of the
> > helper code when the upstream has added new refs without us.
> 
> without us knowing, you mean?

I guess it depends what you mean by knowing. The bug is shown when the
remote has a ref that we don't; we try to feed the name of that ref to
fast-export, which of course doesn't work, because we don't have
anything by that name.

So in that sense, no, we don't know about the ref. But it is not about
us knowing about the remote having the ref; the problem is that we _do_
know that the remote has that ref, and assume we have a matching one.

-Peff