From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:55:55 GMT Subject: Re: How is working on arbitrary remote heads supposed to work in Cogito (+ PATCH)? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vacjmqnu7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes posted a script on the list a couple of days ago, which > should work well, except that it was written before the > git-fetch-pack command was updated to natively download from > multiple refs, so it does not know how to fetch multiple refs at > a one go. Actually, my script usually only calls fetch once. It checks if the commit object is already local before trying to fetch it, and it turns out that a single fetch is often (always?) sufficient to slurp the other commits, too. I did not have time to find out if that is a true bug in git. Ciao, Dscho