Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] bundle doc: elaborate on rev<->ref restriction
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
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- Jul 21, 2021, 09:27 UTC
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On 20/07/2021 21:19, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes: > >> +Revisions must accompanied by reference names to be packaged in a >> +bundle, since the header of the bundle is in a format similar to 'git >> +show-ref'. > This may be an improvement in the way how the description refers to > "show-ref", but we do not have to say anything about "show-ref" ;-) > > The reason we should give readers why they must give refs while > creating a bundle, I think, is because the only way to access the > contents of the bundle is to fetch refs from it, and the refs given > to the command when the bundle was created becomes the refs that can > be fetched from the bundle. > > Thanks. >
Should the `list-heads` option be mentioned for investigating existing bundles? -- Philip