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Re: efficient cloning

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 21, 2006, 00:57 UTC
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Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:
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>> I think what is reasonable is something like this:
>> 
>>  - If you start from a repository cloned in the traditional
>>    way, the upstream "master" is kept track of with your
>>    "origin", so "diff origin master" would be "my changes on top
>>    of the upstream".
>
> Yes. And it would be nice if the same would work with the new layout,
> assuming that there is no local "origin" branch, but a .git/remotes/origin
> file and .git/refs/remotes/origin directory.

My primary aversion comes from that I'd rather avoid teaching the really core stuff about .git/remotes file, and the part that interprets refname is fairly a low-level part.

We _could_ record refs/remotes/origin/HEAD that points at refs/remotes/origin/master (or some other branch) upon cloning, and if Pasky wants to do something similar upon fetching, that fetch command could do the same thing.

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  1. James CloosMar 19, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceMar 19, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2006
  4. James CloosMar 20, 2006
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  7. Petr BaudisMar 20, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
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  11. Josef WeidendorferMar 20, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
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  15. Andreas EricssonMar 21, 2006
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