From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:25:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Message-ID: <ee4uos$oq7$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vodtmey30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Actually 'git ls-remote .' _is_ useful for gitweb, see the new 
>> git_get_references code. 
> 
> You are missing the point.
> 
> We are not discussing if having foo^{} is useful.  There is no
> argument about it.  Without it the user is forced to ask
> rev-parse.
> 
> The point is if it is Ok to assume foo and foo^{} (and nothing
> else) are enough to make Porcelains and visualizers happy, and I
> suspected the answer was no (remember show-ref discussion?).

Well, it is enough for ref markers (this commit is this head or tag), for
dumb http transport (indo/refs output is the same as ls-remote), and not
much else... 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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