Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Teach git-fetch to exploit server side automatic tag following

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 5, 2008, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803051220360.18836@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080305055659.GD8410@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>  
> > - should followtags not be the default?
> 
> No.  Absolutely not.
> 
> The client may not want tag objects from this remote.  It might not want 
> those tags for all sorts of reasons.  Maybe they are doing a one-shot 
> pull.  Maybe they don't trust this remote.  Maybe they trust this remote 
> but this remote is famous for 192M tags containing PDFs of photo images 
> of build logs printed out on paper, then photographed on a wood table 
> and finally scanned in at 600 dpi.

Sorry, I meant to say: "should the followtags feature not be on by default in the circumstances where we would follow tags anyway"...

Maybe you do that, but I did not see it.

> So it should only be enabled *if* we were willing to open a second 
> connection to this remote to followtags from it.  And that's not a 
> change from prior behavior either, its just faster.

Thanks, Dscho