From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:56:29 GMT
Subject: Re: "git-send-pack"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506301655310.14331@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0506301731220.30848-100000@iabervon.org>



On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> My expectation is that the puller will have a ref "remote-branch", and
> will therefore: (1) want to update it, and (2) know the last commit pulled
> from it. In this situation, we can skip figuring out the start (the two
> points I didn't quote), because we saved it from before.

This is _never_ how I do things, so I think that's a bad expectation. I 
have other peoples trees "just show up", since they are actually based on 
mine..

		Linus