From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:25:08 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <17669.8191.778645.311304@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20060911142644.32313.qmail@science.horizon.com> <7vy7sqic4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <17669.55963.930152.564529@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <7v1wqige41.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vodtmey30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 12 02:25:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMw5a-0003JU-2t for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:25:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965202AbWILAZQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:25:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965203AbWILAZQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:25:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42668 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965202AbWILAZO (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:25:14 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GMw5L-0003HZ-B4 for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:25:07 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:25:07 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:25:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> Actually 'git ls-remote .' _is_ useful for gitweb, see the new >> git_get_references code. > > You are missing the point. > > We are not discussing if having foo^{} is useful. There is no > argument about it. Without it the user is forced to ask > rev-parse. > > The point is if it is Ok to assume foo and foo^{} (and nothing > else) are enough to make Porcelains and visualizers happy, and I > suspected the answer was no (remember show-ref discussion?). Well, it is enough for ref markers (this commit is this head or tag), for dumb http transport (indo/refs output is the same as ls-remote), and not much else... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git