Re: Wishlist for a bundle-only transport mode

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

On Nov 21, 2007 5:36 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Santi B?jar wrote:
>
> > On Nov 21, 2007 4:59 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Santi B?jar wrote:
> > >
> > > > 1) git-clone does not accept a bundle file, even if git-fetch does.
> > > > I've made a patch to use git-fetch in git-clone for this.
> > >
> > > This, along with rewriting git-clone as a very thin wrapper over
> > > git-init, -remote and -fetch, is a really low hanging fruit.
> >
> > For the basic/normal mode it can be a very thin wrapper but you have to
> > support --local, --shared, --reference...
>
> That is not all that difficult.

I did not say it was difficult, I said it was not a very thin wrapper.

>
> > > > 2) The bundles created with "git bundle" does not record the HEAD,
> > > > they resolve the symbolic name to a branch name.
> > >
> > > It imitates ls-remote output.
> >
> > No, it does not.
> >
> > With a newly created project with one commit:
> >
> > $ git ls-remote git.git
> > b71992713c17c3a29f9566e1b50e8cf402375faf        HEAD
> > b71992713c17c3a29f9566e1b50e8cf402375faf        refs/heads/master
> >
> > $ git bundle create git.bdl HEAD master
> >
> > $ git bundle list-heads git.bdl
> > b71992713c17c3a29f9566e1b50e8cf402375faf refs/heads/master
> > b71992713c17c3a29f9566e1b50e8cf402375faf refs/heads/master
>
> Ah, I misunderstood.

Maybe because of my non-native english :-)

>  I thought you were expecting that the first line
> would read
>
>         refs/heads/master       HEAD

or

ref: refs/heads/master        HEAD

That would be perfect, but it is a different story.

>
> Alas, this behaviour stems from dwim_ref() returning "refs/heads/master"
> as real ref.
>
> I am not quite sure how to solve this, though.  Let me see what I can come
> up with.

Thank you.

Santi