From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Govind Salinas" Subject: git-bundle question. Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:11:46 -0500 Message-ID: <5d46db230805111511g5bbb0b9amf65fb95266a80504@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Git Mailing List" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 12 00:13:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JvJn1-0006Oq-L9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 00:13:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754321AbYEKWLw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753858AbYEKWLw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:52 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:36426 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbYEKWLw (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2008 18:11:52 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1161518ywe.1 for ; Sun, 11 May 2008 15:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.82.41 with SMTP id f41mr7489196ybb.169.1210543906256; Sun, 11 May 2008 15:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.181.17 with HTTP; Sun, 11 May 2008 15:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I am writing my wrapper over git bundle and I noticed that the "SPECIFYING REFERENCES" section says that the it will only bundle things that end in something git-show-ref can find. I can probably work around this by silently creating a tag doing the bundle and deleting the tag, but I want to know why this restriction is in there in the first place? If there is a good reason for it then I will probably just add this info to the documentation. Thanks, Govind.