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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-receive-pack doesn't understand objects/info/alternates?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:30:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070416153040.GG27533@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160704160613t3ac17e4co9177ad91fda8eb36@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:13:25PM +0200, Santi Béjar wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >When I push a kernel repository to master.kernel.org, where the
> >repository only has at most a dozen changes on top of 2.6.21-rc7, I
> >noticed that it tried to push a *lot* of objects over ssh.  As in:
> 
> This is because git only trusts the the commits in $GIT_DIR/refs.
> Since commit v1.5.1-107-ge3c6f24 (in next) git-fetch first checks if
> we have all the objects that we are going to fetch available locally.
> This could be added for the push. But for now you could add a branch
> in your repo in master.kernel.org to track linus' master branch.

Thanks for the explanation!  

So if I add a symlink from .git/refs/heads/kludge to
<linus'-tree-on-master>/.git/refs/heads/master this should work as a
workaround now, right?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16 12:22 git-receive-pack doesn't understand objects/info/alternates? Theodore Ts'o
2007-04-16 13:13 ` Santi Béjar
2007-04-16 15:30   ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-04-16 17:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-16 18:48       ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-16 18:57         ` Linus Torvalds

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