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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 03:43:42 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:09, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wr=
ote:

>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0export :1 refs/heads/foo
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0export :2 refs/heads/bar
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0export :3 +refs/heads/force
>>
>> with :1, :2, and :3 being marks in the fast-import stream.
>
> The only problem there is that we don't know the relevant marks befor=
ehand.

Since this requires changing "git fast-export" anyway, we could
arrange to know.

A related problem, though: it is not friendly to stomp on mark numbers
which an exporter might want to use for some other purpose.  So yeah,
the precise syntax above is not so great.