On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> >How does this interact with the "pretend to have fetched back
> >immediately" supported by modern git-push?
>
>
> That continues to fire, but it updates the local tracking ref to point to the
> SHA1 that was pushed, which isn't the actual remote ref. So you have to do a
> real fetch to get the local tracking ref pointed to the right place. In other
> words, that feature doesn't do any good in this context, but it doesn't really
> hurt anything either.
>
> It would of course be better if git-push could notice that it needs to do an
> actual fetch. I think it'd be sufficient to transmit the final remote ref SHA1
> back to git-push, and if it doesn't match what was pushed, that's a sign that
> a fetch is needed. But that change wouldn't be mutually exclusive with this
> patch, I believe.
Couldn't you do this with a status message? ("ok <refname> changed by
hook" or something.)
I disagree that the feature doesn't do any good; it records that the state
of the remote is at least as new as the local state, so you can tell
without a network connection that you don't have any local changes you
haven't sent off.
-Daniel
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