From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:33:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Hiding some refs in ls-remote
Message-ID: <7v38xuf6w5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130121230108.GB17156@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> It may even make sense to have "git push" honor it, excluding them
>> from "git push --mirror" (or "git push --all" if some of the
>> branches are hidden); I haven't thought things through, though.
>
> That is harder, as that is something that happens on the client. How
> does the client learn about the transfer.hiderefs setting on the remote?

No, I was talking about running "git push" from a repository that
has the transfer.hiderefs set, emulating a fetch from a client by
pushing out in the reverse direction.