Re: [PATCHv2] clone: support cloning full bundles

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
>  > ---
>  >
>  > Hi *,
>  >
>  >   while waiting for the C port of git-clone I've updated my patch to
>  > support bundles in "git clone".
>
>  I do not recall the v1 round of this patch, but it does not look
>  too bad.

Well, it was during the freeze, you probably had more important things to do :-)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68035

>
>  I was hoping, however, if we can replace "git fetch-pack" there
>  with "git-fetch" so that you do not have to have the if
>  conditional based on "$repo"'s type.  Isn't "git fetch" capable
>  of fetching from a bundle already?
>

"git fetch" is capable to fetch bundles, but to use "git fetch"
instead of "git fetch-pack"
you need to reorganize other things (not the same output, to download
all the refs you need to write a config with refs/heads/*:..., "git
fetch" does not have a --no-progress), so I opted for
a minimal path (and not break the most used path :-).

I sent another patch to convert every transport to "git fetch" in:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/65669

but it had some problems (ups now I see I didn't answer to Johannes
Schindelin's reply, sorry, or I cannot find it). At the end as
git-clone was going to be ported to C...

Santi