From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:22:16 GMT
Subject: Re: How to not download objects more than needed?
Message-ID: <7vacckt6vr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060222031136.GN5000@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>

Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Neat, it only fetches tags that refer to things we already have. Hadn't
> checked what the automatic tag fetcher was doing.
>
> So either introduce temporary local refs that can be removed once the
> tags have been fetched,...

I think it is enough just to disable tag following when you are
promiscuously fetching.  That is, do the tag following only if
the main fetch is going to store a ref because it has tracking
branch for the remote side.  Otherwise the remote tags do not
matter and if you really care about them you can ask with --tags.