Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:20:28AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  (i) git-clone-pack url HEAD doesn't work

"clone-pack url branchname" might work, but the thing is, nobody
uses clone-pack with explicit heads arguments so if HEAD does
not work I am not surprised at all.

..snip..

I think extending git-fetch-pack to optionally keep things
packed would be somewhat painful but the right approach.  Less
painful and readily doable would be to run clone-pack as is, and
reorganize the result of "copy of the remote" yourself.  That
would be a straightforward thing to do if you are using it for
the initial cloning.

Except that I cannot do the guessing git-clone-pack does (without
fetching all the branches) - so I guess I'll make a patch tomorrow which
fixes git-clone-pack ... HEAD (probably by checking in write_one_ref()
whether it is looking at a symlink and following it first if that's the
case) and then in Cogito do

	git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/origin

before git-clone-pack (and repoint HEAD back after it's over). That
should do exactly what I need it to, I think.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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