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Re: [PATCH] git-revover-tags-script

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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date
Jul 18, 2005, 05:40 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
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> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
>> Actually looking a little deeper unless I have misread
>> the code git-fetch-pack at least will only ask for commit
>> objects so git fetch will never return a tag object.
>
> I thought so but then I tried it and actually it does seem to
> work as expected (well, it is Linus code so it has to be perfect
> ;-).

Yep. I confused the want and have cases when I was reading the code.

A generalization of git-fetch-pack that can handle multiple heads looks like it would handle the transfer part of the problem with tags. git-clone-pack already does. Then all that is needed is a sane way to list the heads that are read back and some post processing to install everything.

The big question is in what format should we return the heads? Just a space separated list of sha1's or a directory hierarchy like git-clone-pack uses.

Eric
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Message 7 of 12 in “git-revover-tags-script”
  1. git-revover-tags-scriptEric W. Biederman, Jul 16, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2005
  3. Eric W. BiedermanJul 17, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 17, 2005
  5. Eric W. BiedermanJul 18, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2005
  7. Eric W. BiedermanJul 18, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 18, 2005
  9. Eric W. BiedermanJul 18, 2005
  10. [RFD] server-info to help clientsJunio C Hamano, Jul 20, 2005
  11. David LangJul 20, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2005

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