From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:58:31 GMT Subject: Re: Spam: Re: git branch performance problem? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote: > 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