Re: [PATCH] rev-list: add "--full-objects" flag.

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> The question:
>> Does git-upload-pack which gets it's list of objects
>> with "git-rev-list --objects needed1 needed2 needed3 ^has1 ^has2 ^has3"
>> get any history beyond the top of tree of each branch.  
>> 
>> As I read the code it does not.  
>
> It does. It gets all the history necessary for each branch. git-rev-list
> will walk the whole history until it hits commits that as been marked as
> uninteresting (or the parents of commits that have been marked as
> uninteresting), and those are the ones that the receiver already has, of
> course.

> So after you get a pack, you have all the history for all the branches you 
> got.
>
> A branch you _didn't_ get, you don't get any history for, of course, but 
> that doesn't matter. You'll get that history if you ever pull the branch 
> later.