From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:19:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510171617460.3369@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510171830030.23242@iabervon.org>



On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't "git fetch http://.../foo.git/ master^{tree}" do the right thing?

The pack pullers have trouble with anything that isn't commit-based, 
because they do all the "figure out what we have in common" logic based on 
the commit history.

So if you fetch a tree, it by definition doesn't _have_ any history, and 
the pack pullers will always pack the whole tree. I think.

		Linus