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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: remote helpers: best practices for using the "refspec" capability
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:04:26 -0500
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Heya,

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:43, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> But the purpose of the namespacing is to be able to continue the correct
> incremental import, so it would make sense to do some arbitrary
> transformation to make your url be a valid ref directory, and use that.
>
> It would make sense to add support for a namespace where fast-import can
> write whatever it wants, and it'll get discarded after the fetch is done,
> if it's the case that anyone can stand not having incremental imports.

I remember a patch series by someone else a lot more that _disabled_
creating of refs during fast-import, and instead allowed for
specifying what refs to update with which values at the end of the
import.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier