Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xd9ulm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070403223840.GN27706@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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>> I wonder if we can have a backdoor to avoid any object transfer
>> in such a case to begin with...
>
> Yea, symlink to the corresponding refs directory of the alternate
> ODB.  Then the refs will be visible.  ;-)

I was thinking about going the other way. When git-fetch is asked to fetch over a local transport, it could check if the source is one of its alternate object stores.

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