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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: efficient cloning
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:19:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321091916.GA17125@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4q1sgpet.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:42:02AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The reason I would like to avoid .git/remotes/$origin is because
> it is designed to be Porcelainish thing.  The underlying C-level
> git-fetch-pack never sees it; instead the information fed to
> C-level is prepared by the upper layer using that file.  As far
> as I understand, Cogito does not understand it either, except
> that it ships with bash completion code that reads from
> filenames there.

Then why not create .git/refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD at the time of clone
(or later)? Then the core looks for:
  (current order, .git/refs, etc)
  .git/refs/remotes/foo
  .git/refs/remotes/foo/HEAD
The porcelain can take care of managing the contents of HEAD. If there
is no HEAD in the directory, then it cannot be looked up by 'foo'
('foo/remote-branch' must be used instead).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-19 21:16 efficient cloning James Cloos
2006-03-19 22:31 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-19 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20  0:32   ` James Cloos
2006-03-20  1:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20  8:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20 15:18         ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-20 21:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20 22:41             ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-20 23:07               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20 16:30         ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-20 23:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-20 23:21             ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-20 23:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-21  8:19                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-21  8:42                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-21  9:19                     ` Jeff King [this message]
2006-03-21  9:45                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-21 11:29                         ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-21  0:26             ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-21  0:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-21  8:28           ` Junio C Hamano

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