From: Stanislav Kolotinskiy Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:49:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory Message-ID: <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