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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:56:21AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Maybe something like
> 
> 	git fetch origin refs/views/2009/*:refs/replace/*

Heh, yeah, that is much simpler than what I did. :)

> A potential usability enhancement might be to allow additional
> replacement hierarchies to be requested on a per command basis, like
> 
> 	GIT_REPLACE_REFS=refs/remotes/origin/views/2009 gitk --all
> 
> along the lines of GIT_NOTES_REF.

Yes, that is a much better solution, IMHO.

-Peff