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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:28:32 -0400
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:25:49PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> Heya,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 19:20, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > There are two possible solutions:
> 
> 3. As mentioned in a different series, I feel it would be preferable
> if fast-import/fast-export did not actually modify any refs, rather
> the remote-helper should specify which refs should be updated to what
> value explicitly. I think the same should/could apply in this case.
> Does that make sense?

Isn't that the case already with import? The helper writes into a
staging area (like refs/testgit), and then we let git pick the results
out of there.

For export, that would be the same as my (2). The problem is that we
don't feed the helper _any_ information about which refs were desired.
All it gets is the fast-export stream.

-Peff