From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:16:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509271414000.3308@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64sm1hp3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The protocol extension I had in mind, which I said is not clean,
> is from upload_pack(), in addition to the existing send_ref()
> call which sends "object-name refname" list like this:
> 
> 4899334e96a076bb8780968c5075b214aa80fab9	HEAD
...
> 
> we could send phony entries like this:
> 
> b92c9c07fe2d0d89c4f692573583c4753b5355d2	deref/tags/junio-gpg-pub
> a3eb250f996bf5e12376ec88622c4ccaabf20ea8	deref/tags/v0.99
> 78d9d414123ad6f4f522ffecbcd9e4a7562948fd	deref/tags/v0.99.1

Yes, it would work, but I really think that there's no downside to just 
having a

	git fetch --tags <dest>

since that's just a few lines of trivial code, with no special cases.

Otherwise:

> We would need to teach git-clone and git-fetch to ignore deref/
> if they do not already do so.

in general, it's just a really ugly special case, I think.

		Linus