Re: git auto-repack is broken...

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Dec 8, 2011, 03:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1112072227510.2907@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20111208004515.GA23015@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:18:13PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > I certainly never did a multi-ref fetch myself.
> 
> Not consciously, perhaps, but you do it all the time without realizing
> it:
> 
>   $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>   $ cd git
>   $ git fetch -v origin
>    = [up to date]      maint      -> origin/maint
>    = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
>    = [up to date]      next       -> origin/next
>    = [up to date]      pu         -> origin/pu
>    = [up to date]      todo       -> origin/todo
>   $ cat .git/FETCH_HEAD
>   b1af9630d758e1728fc0008b3f18d90d8f87f4c5        not-for-merge   branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>   4cb5d10b14dcbe0155bed9c45ccb94e83bd4c599                branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>   03e5527c5df33d4550ccc1446d861c0aa5689d58        not-for-merge   branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>   cc4e3f01fc6a5e09ae5bbdc464965981fae4cf39        not-for-merge   branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>   7a02dba15bd28826344f9c14a5e2b5c57eeb7e50        not-for-merge   branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git

OK, nevermind. I admitedly never have been close enough to the related code.

And I don't think this particular case is interesting anyway as the reflogs for the various branches alre already involved. I was thinking more about the "git fetch git://some.random.repo foobar" case where the summary also explicitly shows:

From: git://some.random.repo
  ......  foobar   -> FETCH_HEAD

In that case the only reference to the fetched branch is stored in FETCH_HEAD and that is what might be worthwile for a reflog.

Nicolas