From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:49:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fhalah$e9s$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vzlxj15xe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> But since you're one of the people knowing git _internals_ pretty
>>> well, here's another reason just for you why this cannot be done:
>>> There is no way to find out where the HEAD points to.
>>
>> $ mkdir foo; cd foo; git init; git symbolic-ref -q HEAD
>> refs/heads/master
>
> Johannes is talking about the lack of native protocol support to
> transfer symref information. That's the reason git-clone dances
> around finding where HEAD really points at. It simply does not
> know -- all it gets about a symref is what SHA-1 the ref points
> at.
Do I remember correctly that there was some talk about extending git
protocol to avoid this compicated dance, and transfer symbolic refs
directly?
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 13:11 What is the idea for bare repositories? David Kastrup
2007-11-12 13:19 ` Bruno Cesar Ribas
2007-11-12 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:19 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 16:34 ` Cloning empty repositories, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:24 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 18:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 22:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 22:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-13 0:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-13 9:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 10:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-13 10:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 11:40 ` Jeff King
2007-11-13 19:50 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-11-13 21:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14 9:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 17:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 10:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 11:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 22:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 9:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 12:09 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 13:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-14 14:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 14:13 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 20:16 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:22 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:30 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-14 20:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14 23:38 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-15 0:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-15 8:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-15 1:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15 8:51 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-15 12:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
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2007-11-15 13:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15 6:19 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18 0:25 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-18 3:25 ` Jeff King
2007-11-12 18:55 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 17:55 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 17:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 19:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-12 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:49 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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2007-11-12 17:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 14:20 ` David Tweed
2007-11-12 16:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 16:54 ` David Kastrup
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