On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:49:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > Maybe we have a misunderstanding about what "follow a link" means and > when it is done. > During most normal git operation, the origin links are just read, but > not followed. > The only commands that I expect to follow them are log --graph, gitk, fsck > and blame. I may have missed some corner use-cases, but this should > cover most of it; i.e. most of git ignores them or just makes note of > the hashvalues provided. Oh, I'm sorry. By - During fetch/push/pull the full commit including the origin fields is transmitted, however, the objects the origin links are referring to are not (unless they are being transmitted because of other reasons). I have understood that you fetch the origin target but not commits referred from it, but instead you meant that you do not follow the origin link at all. Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- 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