From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:23:27 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > > As you might have noticed, the actual process of pulling/fetching > explicitly does *not* pull in the objects being pointed to. .. which makes them _local_ data, which in turn means that they should not be in the object database at all. IOW, i you want this for local reasons, you should use a local database, like the index or the reflogs (and I don't mean "like the index" in the sense that it would look _anything_ like that file, but in the sense that it's a purely local thing and doesn't show up in the object database). Linus