From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:30:52 GMT
Subject: Re: how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote?
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xogcBaAfWi5nf85ki44p+fLHJiRWUu5iMMaFutenoA83g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfuy92bt7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> does show them? Any particular reason for why this is? I am confused
>> why refs aren't showing up inside the refs folder...
>
> Does
>
>         git for-each-ref refs/changes/
>
> in your local resulting repository show them?
>
> There is nothing that says "ls -R .git/refs/" is the way to
> enumerate available refs (in fact it is a _wrong_ way that is
> guaranteed to give you wrong results).
>
> Hint: .git/packed-refs
>

Yep I figured that out :) Now I know better!

Regards,
Jake