Peeling the onion

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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we could send phony entries like this:

b92c9c07fe2d0d89c4f692573583c4753b5355d2	deref/tags/junio-gpg-pub
a3eb250f996bf5e12376ec88622c4ccaabf20ea8	deref/tags/v0.99
78d9d414123ad6f4f522ffecbcd9e4a7562948fd	deref/tags/v0.99.1

Yes, it would work,..
in general, it's just a really ugly special case, I think.

I think we could do this instead, to make it less ugly.

...

The alternative would be what Pasky outlined in his message --
bypassing git transport layer to fetch single object by hand,
repeatedly dereferencing it until he gets a non-tag.  I think
that is unnecessary misery for him.

I did not hear much from the people involved since this message,
but I have a bit less ugly solution along the lines outlined
above, in the proposed updates branch.  Incidentally this would
also simplify Martin's git-findtags, especially if we do not
worry about its '-t' option.

I'll be sending 3-patch series; the first two are preparatory
but what may be useful for Pasky and Martin is in the third
one.

    [PATCH] Ignore funny refname sent from remote.
    [PATCH] Introduce notation "ref^{type}".
    [PATCH] Show peeled onion from upload-pack and server-info.