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Re: git-fetch-pack: avoid unnecessary zero packing

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 18, 2005, 17:48 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181046401.3369@g5.osdl.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181032400.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Gaah. Ignore this version - I had re-organized the code, and that introduced a stupid bug for the case where the local side didn't have any such ref at all.

I'll send a corrected patch momentarily.
		Linus
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> If everything is up-to-date locally, we don't need to even ask for a 
> pack-file from the remote, or try to unpack it.
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