Re: git clone --reference not working
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
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- Nov 17, 2011, 04:49 UTC
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On 11/17/2011 01:54 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> latest git.git won't clone linux upstream with --reference. Those
>> v*^{} tags breaks it. What's that stuff anyway, looks totally ugly
>> (two commits with same data contents and header) bah.
>
> They point at commits they tag, and are essential for auto-following. They
> have been there forever in ls-remote output and they are not the real
> problem.
>
> A recent topic that was merged at 9bd5000 tightened the refname checking
> code without thinking and started to needlessly barf upon seeing them. I
> think we have discussed about the issue on the list, but I do not think
> there were fixes yet.
>
> Thanks for reminding.
>
> Michael, how does this look?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: refs: loosen over-strict "format" check
> [...]I reviewed the patch (and ran the test suite here for good measure). Looks good.
>From SubmittingPatches it looks like I should authorize
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Is there a standard way to do so?
Michael
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