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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:59:09 +0000
From:   Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To:     Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checks
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Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> >    git -c transfer.hideRefs=refs \
> > 	-c transfer.hideRefs='!refs/remotes/$REMOTE/' \
> > 	fetch $REMOTE
> > 
> > I initially considered passing --negotiation-tip OIDs, but this seems
> > like an easier solution as I'm not yet familiar with this code
> > and prefer to avoid writing too much C.
> 
> --negotiation-tip supports ref name globs too. Would that be sufficient
> for your purposes?

Yes, I tried using globs but didn't want to figure out how to
pass the resulting OIDs to rev-list.