From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:43:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 15/15] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs
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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?