From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:29:52 GMT
Subject: Re: How to check new commit availability without full fetch?
Message-ID: <b4087cc51001102129n5d5ac022s4f6f3ee9512eefd2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4vpcs1q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Until all the objects are safely transferred, none of the refs
> are updated, whether they are directly slurped into local branch namespace
> or remote tracking branch namespace.  So no matter what the configuration
> is, interrupted transfer, forced or otherwise, is safe.

I suggest adding this kind of information to the fetch/pull (and I
suppose push) documentation.