From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:35:52 GMT
Subject: Re: shallow clone not very shallow due to tags
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Of course a placeholder ref cannot be used as a starting point to
> checkout something, can it? It has no commit object available. So if
> you did decide to checkout a placeholder, you would need to first
> fetch that placeholder. So why not use git ls-remote to list the
> remotely available branches?

Ah.. ls-remote is the answer. Thanks, placeholders are gone (for me).
-- 
Duy