From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:14:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 15/15] fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs
Message-ID: <7vmwya3h0x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1352642392-28387-16-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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

> They have been marked as UNINTERESTING for a reason, lets respect that.
> ...
> The current behavior is most certainly not what we want. After this
> patch, nothing gets exported, because nothing was selected (everything
> is UNINTERESTING).

The old behaviour was an incorrect "workaround" that has been
superseded by your 14/15 "make sure updated refs get updated", no?
Mentioning that would help people realize that this patch would not
cause regression on them, I would think.