Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2012, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <201203182307.43599.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120318190659.GA24829@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote: [...]

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> I think the only sane solution is to write the values to a temporary
> file, and do something like:
> 
>   git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-from=$tmpfile
> 
> Even if you put the tmpfile in $GIT_DIR, I don't think this should run
> afoul of any read-only repositories, since by definition you are
> fetching into the repository (but you could also just put it in /tmp).

Or

   git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-fd=$n

and there would be no need for temporary file.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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