From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:40:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505151129200.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4qd5xdby.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I am having a bit hard time understanding how the end user uses
> what you are trying to give them.  Is the basic idea to let them
> say "I want to get Pasky's $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master and store
> it in my $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/git-pb, and then I want to start
> the pull starting from the commit recorded in that ref"?

Yes. This would be: git-http-pull -w heads/git-pb heads/master
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/git-pb.git/

> Assuming that is what you are doing, I do not have much
> objection to it.  I however think introducing REFS_ENVIRONMENT
> is going overboard.

Now that we have GIT_DIR, you're probably right. I mainly kept it there
for symmetry. On the other hand, I think that, if you're using a shared
objects directory, you want to also use a shared refs directory, or you'll
never be able to identify unreachable objects accurately.

	-Daniel
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