From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:29:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
Message-ID: <32541b130807071129m218059eaw8837681c0d705cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wwd4kvb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 7/7/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@dfki.de> writes:
>  > Is it possible to make 'fetch' only .. well .. fetch objects, without
>  > updating any refs?
>
> Not very easily, and that is very deliberate.  The objects fetched will
>  become dangling if you allowed such a mode of operation, and will
>  immediately become subject to gc.

Is this really desirable?  I could imagine dropping an entry (or
several entries, or whatever) into the reflog after each fetch, to
prevent such fetched objects from being deleted right away.

Avery