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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to check new commit availability without full fetch?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:29:52 -0600
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> Until all the objects are safely transferred, none of the refs
> are updated, whether they are directly slurped into local branch name=
space
> or remote tracking branch namespace. =A0So no matter what the configu=
ration
> is, interrupted transfer, forced or otherwise, is safe.

I suggest adding this kind of information to the fetch/pull (and I
suppose push) documentation.