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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:07:42 +0100
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Jeff King wrote:
[...]
> I think the only sane solution is to write the values to a temporary
> file, and do something like:
>=20
> =C2=A0 git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-from=3D$tmpfile
>=20
> Even if you put the tmpfile in $GIT_DIR, I don't think this should ru=
n
> afoul of any read-only repositories, since by definition you are
> fetching into the repository (but you could also just put it in /tmp)=
=2E

Or

   git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-fd=3D$n

and there would be no need for temporary file.

--=20
Jakub Narebski
Poland