From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:53:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make fetch-pack play nicer with servers which do not speak multi_ack Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vll0hcgv3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > You're right. Complete common refs are sent even if they are ancestors > > of other complete common refs. I'll think about that. > > I think you should be able to do something similar to what > git-show-branch --independent does, except that the current > show-branch implementation sucks. I have a patch simmering, but I hesitate to send it out, lest you go and put it into master before I found the obvious bugs ;-) > It wastes one-bit per ref head, which is not too bad if we deal only > with branches (who would sanely keep more than 29 branches in a repo > except Jeff ;-) [...] Well, I do! I *love* topic branches. Sometimes I even interrupt my regular work to create a random one ;-)