From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050513233738.GL32232@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505131853020.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 01:14:22AM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> On Sat, 14 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I've honestly expected something different - a generic way to
> > specify any file in the repository to be pulled along, instead of a
> > introducing refs awareness at this level of git. What would be the
> > advantages of that approach against just specifying list of other files
> > to pull along?
>
> The point is to specify the commit to pull by fetching a file from the
> other side, not just to move a file. So you need to be specifying that the
> file is a hex encoding of the sha1 hash of the starting point of the pull,
> and the refs/ area is where these are expected to be. (Note that it still
> doesn't have any knowledge about the meanings of files in refs/; you tell
> it which one you want to use, and optionally which one you want to write
> to, and it will use the names you provide).
>
> It wouldn't help much to download the head file if you had to know the
> contents of that file already in order to do everything as a single
> transfer.
So what about just something like
git-wormhole-pull remote:refs/head/master wormhole://localhost/
That is, you could just specify remote:path_relative_to_url instead of
SHA1 id as the commit.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 6:49 [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 6:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] Support for refs directory Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 6:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] Generic support for pulling refs Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 6:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] Pull refs by HTTP Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 11:15 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-05-13 7:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] Pulling refs by ssh Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-15 15:48 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 22:19 ` [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files Petr Baudis
2005-05-13 23:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-13 23:37 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-05-15 3:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-17 20:14 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-17 21:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-17 21:45 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-17 22:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-18 21:35 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-19 3:19 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-19 6:52 ` Petr Baudis
2005-05-19 16:00 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-15 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-15 15:40 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-16 7:55 ` Junio C Hamano
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