From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080909132212.GA25476@cuci.nl> <20080909194354.GA13634@cuci.nl> <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 10 02:24:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdDVo-0007wq-Ul for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:24:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751013AbYIJAXm (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:23:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751019AbYIJAXl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:23:41 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55527 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864AbYIJAXl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:23:41 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8A0NSKf007221 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:23:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8A0NREn011164; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:23:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.937 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > > As you might have noticed, the actual process of pulling/fetching > explicitly does *not* pull in the objects being pointed to. .. which makes them _local_ data, which in turn means that they should not be in the object database at all. IOW, i you want this for local reasons, you should use a local database, like the index or the reflogs (and I don't mean "like the index" in the sense that it would look _anything_ like that file, but in the sense that it's a purely local thing and doesn't show up in the object database). Linus