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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:34:04 +0200
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Heya,

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 19:28, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Isn't that the case already with import? The helper writes into a
> staging area (like refs/testgit), and then we let git pick the results
> out of there.

The staging area solution is sub-optimal, see [0] for the thread I was
referring to.

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/174693/focus=174787

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier