On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The fact that "git clone is taught a --initial-refspec" option" indicates >> this isn't just an ODB implementation detail. Is there a general capability >> that is missing from the ODB interface that needs to be addressed here? > > Technically you don't need to teach `git clone` the --initial-refspec > option to make it work. > It can work like this: > > $ git init > $ git remote add origin <originurl> > $ git fetch origin <odbrefspec> > $ git config odb.<odbname>.command <helper> > $ git fetch origin > > But it is much simpler for the user to instead just do: > > $ git clone -c odb.<odbname>.command=<helper> --initial-refspec > <odbrefspec> <originurl> > > I also think that the --initial-refspec option could perhaps be useful > for other kinds of refs for example tags, notes or replace refs, to > make sure that those refs are fetched first and that hooks can use > them when fetching other refs like branches in the later part of the > clone. Actually I am not sure that it's possible to setup hooks per se before or while cloning, but perhaps there are other kind of scripts or git commands that could trigger and use the refs that have been fetched first.
