From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-pack: Fix --all option when used with directory Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20160324173731.GD6341@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1458750262-25765-1-git-send-email-stanislav@assembla.com> <20160323212213.GA19920@sigill.intra.peff.net> <56F3F267.30900@assembla.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Dave Borowitz , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stanislav Kolotinskiy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 24 18:37:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aj9CW-0004Cx-2m for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:37:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751161AbcCXRhg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:36 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:37623 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750828AbcCXRhf (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:35 -0400 Received: (qmail 14950 invoked by uid 102); 24 Mar 2016 17:37:34 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:34 -0400 Received: (qmail 14938 invoked by uid 107); 24 Mar 2016 17:37:54 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:54 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:37:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56F3F267.30900@assembla.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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