Hi, On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > - Teach fetch-pack reference renaming. > > Well, the fetch side at least needs it less. > > Right now the renaming means that you can only really fetch _one_ head at > a time, but that's at least a fairly common and important case, and you > can do the rest from there. > > And doing only one means that git-fetch-pack can just return the result > SHA1 of the head it was asked to fetch. In fact, even that could just be > extended to returning multiple heads: just return each SHA1 in order. No > "renaming" necessary, since it's then up to the user what to do with the > results. I think that we need a method to do a push in reverse: If a central repository has several branches, I might want to pull just those branches where the local head is a strict parent of the remote side, and get complains for the others. And maybe reference naming comes as a freebie with that. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
