Re: [PATCH] cg-fetch will now retrieve commits related to tags if missing.

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2005, 04:18 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90510192118s31c52fe7m73d88a9779653f4c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voe5lvv1q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 10/20/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> You are saying:
>         if "$tagid" is already commit then continue;
>         if "$tagid" dereferences to a commit and if you have it
>         then continue
>
> If that is the case, then this might be more efficient.
>
>         GIT_DIR=../.. git-rev-parse --verify "$tagid^0" >/dev/null 2>&1 && continue

Note however that git-rev-parse is lazy and won't check that the commit is there. I have to call git-cat-file and check whether it succeeds to know if we have the object.

cheers,

martin