From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: "git-send-pack" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 01 01:47:31 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do8kh-000497-4U for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:47:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263126AbVF3Xyo (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263127AbVF3Xyo (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:54:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:35040 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263126AbVF3Xye (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:54:34 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5UNsOjA006846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:54:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5UNsNt8009573; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:54:23 -0700 To: Daniel Barkalow In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.40__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.111 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > My expectation is that the puller will have a ref "remote-branch", and > will therefore: (1) want to update it, and (2) know the last commit pulled > from it. In this situation, we can skip figuring out the start (the two > points I didn't quote), because we saved it from before. This is _never_ how I do things, so I think that's a bad expectation. I have other peoples trees "just show up", since they are actually based on mine.. Linus