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Re: [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 24, 2016, 17:37 UTC
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<20160324173731.GD6341@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<56F3F267.30900@assembla.com>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 03:57:59PM +0200, Stanislav Kolotinskiy wrote:
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> On 23/03/16 23:22, Jeff King wrote:
> >Not that it matters for this bug, but for my own curiosity, what do you
> >use "send-pack --all" for? I've generally assumed that nobody directly
> >calls send-pack themselves these days, but of course we have no data to
> >support that either way. So I am always interested to hear about unusual
> >use cases.
> Well, here at Assembla we're using send-pack --all for creating forks
> from repos in a quick and efficient way.

I guess a follow-up to my question is: what does "git send-pack" do that "git push" does not? Again, this is just for my curiosity (the answer may be "nothing, we just happened to build our scripts around send-pack", and that is perfectly fine).

-Peff
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  1. git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directoryStanislav Kolotinskiy, Mar 23, 2016
  2. Jeff KingMar 23, 2016
  3. Jeff KingMar 23, 2016
  4. Stanislav KolotinskiyMar 24, 2016
  5. Jeff KingMar 24, 2016
  6. Stanislav KolotinskiyMar 24, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2016
  8. Stanislav KolotinskiyMar 24, 2016
  9. Jeff KingMar 24, 2016
  10. Stanislav KolotinskiyApr 1, 2016

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