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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/.
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:05:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120412210542.GD21018@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F873E2C.6080808@web.de>

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote:

> Am 12.04.2012 22:36, schrieb Marc Branchaud:
> > I assumed it was an optimization of some sort -- that since tags are normally
> > only fetched when they're part of a requested branch's history (right?),
> > there was no point in doing submodule recursion on the fetched tags since
> > those tagged tree-ishes had already been submodule-recursed.
> 
> If that is the case the patch I just sent is pointless, but adding a comment
> there explaining that would be a good thing ;-)

That is often the case, but not always (I might explicitly fetch a tag,
or have refs/tags/ in my refspec). So I think you want to handle both to
cover all cases. I haven't looked at the submodule recursion code, but I
would hope that it would eliminate duplicates (so if I get a branch and
a tag that is on the branch, we would look at the commit in question
only once).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 14:29 [PATCH] fetch: Only call a new ref a "branch" if it's under refs/heads/ marcnarc
2012-04-12  5:52 ` Jeff King
2012-04-12 20:15   ` Jens Lehmann
2012-04-12 20:36     ` Marc Branchaud
2012-04-12 20:42       ` Jens Lehmann
2012-04-12 21:05         ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-04-13  7:04           ` Jeff King
2012-04-13 16:25             ` [PATCH] submodules: recursive fetch also checks new tags for submodule commits Jens Lehmann

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