From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:14:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4d8e3fd30803030440s7239c83cj8bf69401dd76bad@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 03 14:16:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWAWi-00071H-SY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:16:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbYCCNPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:15:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751054AbYCCNPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:15:44 -0500 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:36322 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbYCCNPn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:15:43 -0500 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m23DEUou015622 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:14:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1JWAUu-0007KE-V6; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:14:28 +0100 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JWAUu-0007xz-SG; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:14:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30803030440s7239c83cj8bf69401dd76bad@mail.gmail.com> (Paolo Ciarrocchi's message of "Mon\, 3 Mar 2008 13\:40\:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:14:31 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" writes: > What is still not clear to me is where git is storing > the objects downloaded during a git fetch operation. git fetch downloads the objects to the object database, i.e. .git/objects/, usualy as a pack. Now, just "having" the objects locally doesn't change much, an object starts being really interesting if you have a reference (typically, a branch) pointing to it. "git fetch" will update the remote references (for example, origin/master), but won't touch the working tree, and won't do any merge, fast-forward or not, to a local branch. So, most likely, "git fetch" will be followed by either a merge or a rebase. -- Matthieu