From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:26:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Tags of non-commits
Message-ID: <7vsl68d6gm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708241506300.5774@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> I get a bunch of:
>
> error: Object 0938d5832b4e40e6f440fa5c424c77b70714fb59 is a blob, not a commit
>
> lines. I think it's either in trying to decide whether they should be put 
> in FETCH_HEAD or in trying to determine reachability through them.

Ah, that should be fixable.  Never noticed it.

> ...server also seems to be unable to tell that I already have the blobs, and 
> sends a pack of all of them each time I pull with tags.

That may indeed be a limitation in native protocol.