Re: [PATCH v5 15/15] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2012, 22:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd2z7rj3y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0WH-P7WY4UqhMX3WdrrSCYXUR9yCgsUV+mzLOCK5LkHQ@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Of course, transport-helper shouldn't even be specifying the negative
> (^) refs, but that's another story.

Hrm, I am not sure I understand what you mean by this.

How should it be telling the fast-export up to what commit the receiving end should already have the history for (hence they do not need to be sent)? Or are you advocating to re-send the entire history down to the root commit every time?

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