From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:26:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check that a tag exists using show-ref instead of looking for the ref file.
Message-ID: <7virj1m9hl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200610032211.05847.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Thanks.  We also need this to avoid refetching already packed
>> tags.
>
> Yeah, I did a very quick check on the shell scripts and I obviously missed 
> some places that need updates.
>
> In fact, I couldn't resist to start implementing the deleted-refs/$frotz~ref 
> stuff we talked about...

How would that help?  We need to audit the existing scripts
since they would not look under $GIT_DIR/deleted-refs currently
anyway.