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Re: [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory

From
Stanislav Kolotinskiy <stanislav@assembla.com>
Date
Mar 24, 2016, 17:49 UTC
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<56F42899.9090909@assembla.com>
In-Reply-To
<20160324173731.GD6341@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 24/03/16 19:37, Jeff King wrote:
> I guess a follow-up to my question is: what does "git send-pack" do that
> "git push" does not? Again, this is just for my curiosity (the answer
> may be "nothing, we just happened to build our scripts around
> send-pack", and that is perfectly fine).

Well, this is some really old code (eight years old), and git version used at the moment was around 1.6. So I'm pretty much sure that it just happened to be the decision of the developer that wrote this piece of code.

-- Stanislav

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  1. git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directoryStanislav Kolotinskiy, Mar 23, 2016
  2. Jeff KingMar 23, 2016
  3. Jeff KingMar 23, 2016
  4. Stanislav KolotinskiyMar 24, 2016
  5. Jeff KingMar 24, 2016
  6. Stanislav KolotinskiyMar 24, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2016
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  9. Jeff KingMar 24, 2016
  10. Stanislav KolotinskiyApr 1, 2016

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