From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:02:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
Message-ID: <8764snyufn.fsf@ualberta.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7bb5d8w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
>> Yes - so you can't save the tag objects either, but then
>> you'll re-slurp them again and again, which is kind of
>> silly. Alternatively, you could actually make git-fsck-object
>> silent about the case when an unreachable (not referenced in
>> refs/) tag object references a non-existing object - perhaps
>> unless --strict is passed to it. If you think the rest of my
>> logic is ok, I think this change to facilitate this "tags
>> caching" is not unreasonable.
>
> Now you completely lost me.  I really do not understand what you
> mean by tags caching and re-slurping.
>

I think Petr is interested in the case where the user hasn't asked for a
particular tag. He wants to automatically grab all the tags in a repository,
or at least those that refer to a branch being downloaded.

Of course, if somebody asks for a specific tag, then everything necessary
should be downloaded. Somebody is fetching your maint branch, Petr want to
automatically download all the tags v0.99.7[a-d], without the user specifying
them explicitly. Or more complex, somebody is tracking your master but NOT
maint. Then Petr wants to download tags v0.99.[0-9] but not v0.99.7[a-d]. 

  Tom