Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:30:41PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: >> Following this mail is a complete replacement git push mirror mode >> stack (V4). It folds down all the various patches into a logical >> sequence (thanks Dscho). This stack passes the entire test suite, >> and I have been using the same code for real work here. > > Ok, I have spotted one oddity with this feature. The symbolic refs are > getting converted to real refs in the mirror. Generally speaking this > is the <remote>/HEAD refs but I guess it may be possible to have others. Currently there is no way to remotely create a symref. It should be easy to make DAV based http push create a symref file. The native "send-pack" protocol does not support such feature, so this needs a protocol extension, which hopefully would be not too involved. Also, to be symmetric, we would need a protocol extension on the "fetch-pack" protocol side to allow fetchers to find out which one is a symref pointing out what other ref. The lack of the information is why git-clone has to guess. - 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
