Correcting the transport code is important (and should probably be done in
transport.c, if possible), but I think we're being a bit silly in
autofollowing tags anyway. If we decide to fetch T due to having T^{}, we
should tell the remote up front that we have T^{}, before we mention
anything else, because it's obviously true and it's also absolutely
certain to make the remote immediately do the right thing. It's silly to
decide to fetch T because we will only need that one object, and then not
instantly tell the server we only need that one object. (And, as luck
would have it, yesterday I wrote code to cause for_each_ref return some
specific values in addition to and before the actual stored refs.)
Of course, we shouldn't do this until we make the transport code more
correct, because it's certain to hide any possible bug there.
Am I missing something in my analysis?
-Daniel
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