From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:11:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fast-export: do not export negative refs
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1107261709070.1534@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <7v39hvts4i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi Junio,

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ... In the next commit this will be changed in order to make sure that 
> > 'master..master' does export master.
> 
> Sorry, but you need to be much more clear why this could be a good 
> thing.

Maybe we should have written 'master^0..master' or 'blub..blah' where 
'blah' points to the same commit as 'blub'.

The problem is that we need to be able to tell which _ref_ is 
uninteresting, not which _commit_, since one and the same commit can be 
referenced by an uninteresting and an interesting ref.

Hopefully you will excuse our being a little incoherent after a codathon,
Dscho