Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:13:25PM +0200, Santi Béjar wrote: >> On 4/16/07, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >When I push a kernel repository to master.kernel.org, where the >> >repository only has at most a dozen changes on top of 2.6.21-rc7, I >> >noticed that it tried to push a *lot* of objects over ssh. As in: >> >> This is because git only trusts the the commits in $GIT_DIR/refs. >> Since commit v1.5.1-107-ge3c6f24 (in next) git-fetch first checks if >> we have all the objects that we are going to fetch available locally. >> This could be added for the push. But for now you could add a branch >> in your repo in master.kernel.org to track linus' master branch. > > Thanks for the explanation! > > So if I add a symlink from .git/refs/heads/kludge to > <linus'-tree-on-master>/.git/refs/heads/master this should work as a > workaround now, right? Theoretically speaking, not necessarily. Practically speaking it perhaps may. When Linus runs 'pack-refs --prune', your kludge symlink would not be of any help, as the command removes everything under his linux-2.6.git/refs directory and records the equivalent information in linux-2.6.git/packed-refs file. Word of caution. Symlinking his packed-refs file to your repository would not work either. - 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