From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git-index-pack really does suck..
Message-ID: <7v8xd9ulm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070403223840.GN27706@spearce.org>

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

>> 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.