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Subject: Re: git-index-pack really does suck..
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> I wonder if we can have a backdoor to avoid any object transfer
>> in such a case to begin with...
>
> Yea, symlink to the corresponding refs directory of the alternate
> ODB.  Then the refs will be visible.  ;-)

I was thinking about going the other way.  When git-fetch is
asked to fetch over a local transport, it could check if the
source is one of its alternate object stores.