From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:26:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] remote: make refspec follow the same disambiguation rule as local refs
Message-ID: <20180802022603.GE189024@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo9el4ige.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> One thing I forgot to mention.
>
> When asking to fetch T, in order to be able to favor refs/tags/T
> over refs/heads/T at the fetching end, you would have to be able to
> *see* both, so all 6 variants "T", "refs/tags/T", "refs/heads/T",
> "refs/remotes/T", "refs/remotes/T/HEAD" must be asked to be shown
> when the ls-remote limiting is in effect.  Since the ls-remote
> filtering is relatively new development, we may further find subtle
> remaining bugs, if there still are some.

Fortunately, the fetch code does already do that. ;-)

Jonathan