Re: [RFC][RESEND][PATCH] Allow fetching from multiple repositories at once

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 08:45:01PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > This patch enables fetching multiple repositories at once over the Git
> > protocol (and SSH, and locally if git-fetch-pack is your cup of coffee
> > there). This is done especially for the xorg people who have tons of
> > repositories and dislike pulls much slower than they were used to with CVS.
> > I'm eager to hear how this affects the situation.
> [...]
> 
> I see that objects got to the one shared object database. Where the heads
> (refs) go to? Separate projects have separate ref spaces, even if they share
> object database...

git-fetch-pack actually does not save the refs at all, that's the job of
the porcelain (either git-fetch or cg-fetch). git-fetch-pack just emits
the refs list on stdout. See the script in a followup for an example of
a multirepo-aware porcelain wrapper.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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