Hi Bryan, Bryan Turner wrote: > Is there actually logic somewhere in Git that does that "MAY walk > backwards" step? Yes. See upload-pack.c::check_non_tip and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/178814. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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