From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:22:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack should not ask for a ref which is already there
Message-ID: <7vll1gl4ms.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509290149230.19126@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> With this patch, instead of blindly asking for every remote ref, fetch-pack
> first looks in the local repository if that ref is already there.

This patch breaks things.  git-fetch-pack is supposed to report
the resulting SHA1 and refs on its standard output.  If you are
up to date with this patch you would lose that.