From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:32:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce git-mirror, a tool for exactly mirroring another repository.
Message-ID: <7vac3covlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061031174225.3c7c1e77.vsu@altlinux.ru>

Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:

> What is the current state of packed-refs implementation?

Scheduled for "master" probably tomorrow, with some disclaimers.

> BTW, I was thinking about the possibility to save removed refs under,
> e.g., refs/old/`date -I`/; maybe even non-fast-forward refs could be
> saved there - this will ensure that no object will ever disappear from
> the mirror, no matter what is done on the master side.  Obviously, in
> this case remote refs like refs/old/* should be filtered.

I do not think that belongs to git-mirror.  It might be better to
have that option in update-ref machinery so that you would even
be protected from a `git branch -d` ran by mistake.