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Re: How to not download objects more than needed?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Feb 22, 2006, 01:55 UTC
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Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:42:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> 	git pull git://git.kernel.org/....
>> 
>> and the automatic tag following kicks in, it will first have fetched the 
>> objects once, and then when it tries to fetch the tag objects, it will 
>> fetch the objects it already fetched _again_ (plus the tags), because it 
>> will do the same object pull, but the temporary branch (to be merged) will 
>> never have been written as a branch head.
>
> Isn't this easily avoided by fetching the tags first?
I do not think so.

Notice how the tag following code uses cat-file to determine if the main fetch likely has slurped the object they point at.

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Message 5 of 10 in “How to not download objects more than needed?”
  1. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 21, 2006
  2. seanFeb 21, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsFeb 22, 2006
  4. Jan HarkesFeb 22, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2006
  6. Jan HarkesFeb 22, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2006
  8. git-fetch: follow tag only when tracking remote branch.Junio C Hamano, Feb 22, 2006
  9. Andreas EricssonFeb 22, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2006

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