From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporary
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:50:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfvepuhmy.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543EEAC4.8070204@xiplink.com> (Marc Branchaud's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:44:36 -0400")
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
> Yes, but we're cloning gko, not the neighbour. Doesn't that mean that the
> clone operation won't know about any of the neighbour's refs?
No. --reference (and a natural implementation of --borrow, I would imagine)
peeks the refs of the repository we borrow from and that is how
clone can say "I already have objects reachable from these refs, so
please send me the remainder" to the repository it is cloning from.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-15 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-14 19:57 [PATCH] clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporary Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15 14:34 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-10-15 17:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15 20:51 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-10-15 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15 21:44 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-10-15 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-16 15:26 ` Marc Branchaud
2014-10-17 12:47 ` Jakub Narębski
2014-10-16 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15 19:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-10-15 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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