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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stanislav Kolotinskiy <stanislav@assembla.com>
Cc: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160324173731.GD6341@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F3F267.30900@assembla.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 03:57:59PM +0200, Stanislav Kolotinskiy wrote:

> On 23/03/16 23:22, Jeff King wrote:
> >Not that it matters for this bug, but for my own curiosity, what do you
> >use "send-pack --all" for? I've generally assumed that nobody directly
> >calls send-pack themselves these days, but of course we have no data to
> >support that either way. So I am always interested to hear about unusual
> >use cases.
> Well, here at Assembla we're using send-pack --all for creating forks
> from repos in a quick and efficient way.

I guess a follow-up to my question is: what does "git send-pack" do that
"git push" does not? Again, this is just for my curiosity (the answer
may be "nothing, we just happened to build our scripts around
send-pack", and that is perfectly fine).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 16:24 [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory Stanislav Kolotinskiy
2016-03-23 21:22 ` Jeff King
2016-03-23 21:30   ` Jeff King
2016-03-24 13:57   ` Stanislav Kolotinskiy
2016-03-24 17:37     ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-03-24 17:49       ` Stanislav Kolotinskiy
2016-03-24 16:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-24 17:47   ` Stanislav Kolotinskiy
2016-03-24 18:02     ` Jeff King
2016-04-01 10:42       ` Stanislav Kolotinskiy

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