From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:49:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checks
Message-ID: <20230210214951.684909-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230209122857.M669733@dcvr>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
>    git -c transfer.hideRefs=refs \
> 	-c transfer.hideRefs='!refs/remotes/$REMOTE/' \
> 	fetch $REMOTE
> 
> I initially considered passing --negotiation-tip OIDs, but this seems
> like an easier solution as I'm not yet familiar with this code
> and prefer to avoid writing too much C.

--negotiation-tip supports ref name globs too. Would that be sufficient
for your purposes?