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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] clone: add `--seed` shorthand
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 02:49:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150522064922.GA27716@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1be7702fa53d1705e913aff2e00eac21@www.dscho.org>

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:37:56AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > +--seed <repository|bundle>::
> > +    Fetch objects from <repository> or <bundle> instead of the clone
> > URL when possible. This is useful when a (possibly partial) clone
> > already exists locally, to avoid transferring the same objects again.
> > 
> > I haven't checked if the invocation would accept a bundle filename,
> > but I'm presuming it can in the same way that clone does.
> 
> The proof would lie in the pudding ;-) Would you mind testing whether it works with bundles?

I can't imagine that it would with my patch. The implementation is based
on --reference, which is going to try to set up the bundle as an
alternate.

Having slept on it, I really think "--seed" should be "fetch from the
seed into temp refs", and not what I posted earlier.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21  4:14 [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference Jeff King
2015-05-21  4:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] clone: use OPT_STRING_LIST for --reference Jeff King
2015-05-21  4:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] clone: reorder --dissociate and --reference options Jeff King
2015-05-21  4:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] clone: add `--seed` shorthand Jeff King
2015-05-21 16:05   ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-21 19:45     ` Philip Oakley
2015-05-22  6:37       ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-22  6:49         ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-24 19:07           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27  8:19             ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 19:35               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-22  6:50     ` Jeff King
2015-05-21  5:01 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference Junio C Hamano
2015-05-21  5:06   ` Jeff King
2015-05-21 16:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-24 23:53 ` Michael Haggerty

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