Re: Spam: Re: git branch performance problem?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 11, 2007, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710111148000.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460710110241i445bc61ep8ae60e421c19c0f0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote:

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> It's not something I've really looked into, but there seems to be a
> reflogs mechanism which can temporarily pin an otherwise unreferenced
> object so it doesn't get deleted. Would it be possible to populate the
> remote's view of referenced objects into this, at the point of clone,
> push or pull, which would seem to be the points at which this might be
> changing.
> 
> Obviously this is of no use if you're 'anonymously' poncing off a
> third repo to save clone time, but if you're in control of both repo's
> it might be useful.

I cannot really allege that I understood what you were trying to say, but I guess you want to use clone to get rid of objects you just threw out by either filter-branch or deleting a branch.

The answer is that the file:// as well as the git:// protocol will do that. For local clones, they are not the default, since they are slower than hardlinking.

Hth, Dscho