From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:30:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Message-ID: <48C785C3.9010204@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809091722010.3384@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> As you might have noticed, the actual process of pulling/fetching
>> explicitly does *not* pull in the objects being pointed to.
> 
> .. which makes them _local_ data, which in turn means that they should not 
> be in the object database at all.

Not really local data.  More like _weakly referenced_ data.  If it is
there, cool.  If it is not there, no big deal.

Paolo