Re: Change set based shallow clone

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 12, 2006, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7vodtmey30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <ee4tmo$mhm$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Actually 'git ls-remote .' _is_ useful for gitweb, see the new 
> git_get_references code.

You are missing the point.

We are not discussing if having foo^{} is useful. There is no argument about it. Without it the user is forced to ask rev-parse.

The point is if it is Ok to assume foo and foo^{} (and nothing else) are enough to make Porcelains and visualizers happy, and I suspected the answer was no (remember show-ref discussion?).

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