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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to
	"git clone --bare --origin=blah"
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:25:05 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> Something needs to get the code to figure out the remote HEAD, and it 
> shouldn't be "remote" for clone's use, because then clone would take an 
> extra connection, since "fetch" obviously has to connect and "remote" 
> would run before it and in a separate process.

Actually, having "fetch" figure out the HEAD would be a nice feature,
since then you could track the remote's idea of HEAD as time passes.

AIUI, we could get by with a single connection over git:// with a
protocol extension.

-Peff