From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:43:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local export
Message-ID: <20110609084342.GC4885@elie>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTincedbjH+ta6g7+uA3=3k_30RQaCg@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:09, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>>        export :1 refs/heads/foo
>>        export :2 refs/heads/bar
>>        export :3 +refs/heads/force
>>
>> with :1, :2, and :3 being marks in the fast-import stream.
>
> The only problem there is that we don't know the relevant marks beforehand.

Since this requires changing "git fast-export" anyway, we could
arrange to know.

A related problem, though: it is not friendly to stomp on mark numbers
which an exporter might want to use for some other purpose.  So yeah,
the precise syntax above is not so great.