From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:29:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: don't pass back fake refs
Message-ID: <20111219212932.GA18743@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v39cgmety.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:28:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Do you want to squash in those tests, or should I re-send with a commit
> > message more fully explaining the situation?
> 
> I was lazy and added these three lines at the end:
> 
>     This also fixes pushing with --mirror to a smart-http remote that uses
>     alternates. The fake ".have" refs the server gives to avoid unnecessary
>     network transfer has a similar bad interactions with the machinery.
> 
> but it may warrant a more thorough write-up there.

I think that's probably enough. I could restructure the whole text to
talk less about capabilities^{} and more about generically preventing
fake refs, but I really don't think there's much point.

-Peff