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Re: FETCH_HEAD files and mirrored repos

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 13, 2020, 20:50 UTC
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 04:34:27PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
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> I think adding all this logic is not worth the effort. For vast numbers 
> of people who aren't running Android mirrors, FETCH_HEAD is only going 
> to be a few KB in size, so they won't benefit from this change at all.
> 
> I'm happy with just an option that I have to enable to turn off writing 
> FETCH_HEAD.

Yeah, I'm totally fine with that, too. And because it's an incremental set of steps (add the option, then possibly flip the default), we can easily stop at step 1 and see if anybody cares enough about step 2 to continue.

-Peff
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Message 17 of 19 in “FETCH_HEAD files and mirrored repos”
  1. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 11, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2020
  3. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 11, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2020
  5. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 12, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2020
  7. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 12, 2020
  8. Johannes SixtJul 13, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2020
  10. fetch: optionally allow disabling FETCH_HEAD updateJunio C Hamano, Jul 13, 2020
  11. Taylor BlauJul 13, 2020
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2020
  13. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 13, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2020
  15. Jeff KingJul 13, 2020
  16. Konstantin RyabitsevJul 13, 2020
  17. Jeff KingJul 13, 2020
  18. Johannes SixtJul 13, 2020
  19. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2020

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