From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:59 +0200
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References: <20080909132212.GA25476@cuci.nl> <m3zlmhnx1z.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <20080909194354.GA13634@cuci.nl> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809091631250.3117@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809091722010.3384@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> As you might have noticed, the actual process of pulling/fetching
>> explicitly does *not* pull in the objects being pointed to.
> 
> .. which makes them _local_ data, which in turn means that they should not 
> be in the object database at all.

Not really local data.  More like _weakly referenced_ data.  If it is
there, cool.  If it is not there, no big deal.

Paolo