Re: The transfer.hideRefs of the upload-pack process does not work properly
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Mar 4, 2025, 07:51 UTC
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- <20250304075146.GA1297781@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 02:51:14AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> From your reproduction, it looks like the issue is that for loose refs, > asking for_each_ref() to exclude "refs/heads/foo" will not yield > "refs/heads/foo/bar", but will yield "refs/heads/foo-bar". > > And that was true for packed-refs, too, before 59c35fac54 > (refs/packed-backend.c: implement jump lists to avoid excluded > pattern(s), 2023-07-10). After that, packed-refs exclude both.
Oh, and of course it would be interesting to know how reftables behave here, too, as I think they recently learned about exclusions.
-Peff