From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert, and more about porcelain-level metadata Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:14:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20080910131424.GA7397@cuci.nl> References: <20080909132212.GA25476@cuci.nl> <20080909211355.GB10544@machine.or.cz> <20080909225603.GA7459@cuci.nl> <20080909230525.GC10360@machine.or.cz> <48C794D6.20001@gnu.org> <20080910104424.GH10360@machine.or.cz> <20080910114940.GA14127@cuci.nl> <20080910123026.GJ10360@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paolo Bonzini , git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 10 15:18:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdPXf-00035b-AY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:15:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752240AbYIJNO0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:14:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752161AbYIJNO0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:14:26 -0400 Received: from aristoteles.cuci.nl ([212.125.128.18]:54807 "EHLO aristoteles.cuci.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752240AbYIJNO0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:14:26 -0400 Received: by aristoteles.cuci.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id E25445465; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:14:24 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080910123026.GJ10360@machine.or.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: >On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:49:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >> Maybe we have a misunderstanding about what "follow a link" means and >> when it is done. >Oh, I'm sorry. By > - During fetch/push/pull the full commit including the origin fields is > transmitted, however, the objects the origin links are referring to > are not (unless they are being transmitted because of other reasons). >I have understood that you fetch the origin target but not commits >referred from it, but instead you meant that you do not follow the >origin link at all. Indeed. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "Am I paying for this abuse or is it extra?"