Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611170216190.13772@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611161642320.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Besides, it is not really a temporary branch. If it was, the pull would 
> > _not_ download all these objects again, would it?
> 
> Well, exactly because they are temporary, we can't actually trust the 
> objects they point to.

Nonono.

We made _sure_ that FETCH_HEAD is only written once _all_ the objects were received. So, actually, we _can_, and we _should_ trust the objects they point to!

Or did I miss something?

> For example, if you used one of the old-fashioned commit walkers, maybe we 
> got the initial commit, but we may not have gotten the whole _chain_. See?

Huh? I am quite certain that FETCH_HEAD is not updated in that case. If it is, that's a bug.

Ciao,