Re: efficient cloning

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> I still don't get what's wrong on what I'm proposing. I'm not seeing the
> disadvantages, if there are any.

The only thing I think there is is that I do not get what you
are proposing ;-), since I am not paying full attention while at
day-job.

If you are proposing to root --use-separate-remote not at
refs/remotes but refs/remotes/origin/, I think it makes kind of
sense.  It would make tons of sense _if_ dealing more than one
remote repository is the norm, but otherwise you would have an
extra level of directory refs/remotes which almost always have
only one subdirectory 'origin' and nothing else, which is
pointless.

I am not sure if you are also advocating to map (somehow) origin
to remotes/origin/master (or whatever branch remote's HEAD
points at), but if so I am not quite sure what its semantics
would be.  Which remote branch would you pick (that would not
necessarily be "master") and where are you going to record that
and when.  It all sounds to me complicating things
unnecessarily.