On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:34:04PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 19:28, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Isn't that the case already with import? The helper writes into a > > staging area (like refs/testgit), and then we let git pick the results > > out of there. > > The staging area solution is sub-optimal, see [0] for the thread I was > referring to. > > [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/174693/focus=174787 Thanks. I'm not sure of some details, though. In particular, we also use the staging area during push to know which parts of the history we _don't_ have to send. So where will the remote helper store that state if not in this staging repo? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html