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Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:51:39 -0700
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"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> Is this really desirable?

Yes.

After "git fetch $random_place master && git log ..FETCH_HEAD" to inspect
what the other guy is up to, if you do not like what you see, you do want
the objects that are only reachable from FETCH_HEAD to go away (note that
it is not counted as the root of fsck traversal for this exact reason).