Re: efficient cloning

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:45:12AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Then why not create .git/refs/remotes/$origin/HEAD at the time of clone
> > (or later)? Then the core looks for:
> >   (current order, .git/refs, etc)
> >   .git/refs/remotes/foo
> >   .git/refs/remotes/foo/HEAD
> > The porcelain can take care of managing the contents of HEAD. If there
> > is no HEAD in the directory, then it cannot be looked up by 'foo'
> > ('foo/remote-branch' must be used instead).
> 
> Yup, earlier I mentioned that possibility, and it does not seem
> too painful.  On top of the "next", here is what is needed.
> 
> -- >8 --
> [PATCH] get_sha1_basic(): try refs/... and finally refs/remotes/$foo/HEAD
> 
> This implements the suggestion by Jeff King to use
> refs/remotes/$foo/HEAD to interpret a shorthand "$foo" to mean
> the primary branch head of a tracked remote.  clone needs to be
> told about this convention as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Excellent, yes, that's what I've meant. I'm happy now. :)

Thanks,

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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