Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:14
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Not really. I take this back. What you want to do I did not understand well enough. HEAD is kinda special. A hack I can think of is to do ls-remote first and do the guess clone-pack does for full clone case, and then give a specific branch name to clone. That might work.
... and another way would be to do this; I'll put this (with fixes if there is some needed) in "master" tonight. Also I might want to give --keep option to fetch-pack as well; clone-pack has some static functions that we can extract out to a common file to link to both. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] clone-pack: make it usable for partial branch cloning. clone-pack had some logic to accept subset of remote refs from the command line and clone from there. However, it was never used in practice and its problems were not found out so far. This commit changes the command to output the object names of refs to the standard output instead of making a clone of the remote repository when explicit <head> parameters are given; the output format is the same as fetch-pack. The traditional behaviour of cloning the whole repository by giving no explicit <head> parameters stays the same. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt | 6 +++++- clone-pack.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 31ec6abf887ec95642cbe82fe61076e975494ab0
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt
index cfc7b62..39906fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ OPTIONS The heads to update. This is relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, all heads are updated to match the remote repository. - ++ +Usually all the refs from existing repository are stored +under the same name in the new repository. Giving explicit +<head> arguments instead writes the object names and refs to +the standard output, just like get-fetch-pack does. Author ------
diff --git a/clone-pack.c b/clone-pack.c
index a99a95c..b5ce5d3 100644
--- a/clone-pack.c
+++ b/clone-pack.c@@ -259,8 +259,17 @@ static int clone_pack(int fd[2], int nr_ status = clone_without_unpack(fd); - if (!status) - write_refs(refs); + if (!status) { + if (nr_match == 0) + write_refs(refs); + else + while (refs) { + printf("%s %s\n", + sha1_to_hex(refs->old_sha1), + refs->name); + refs = refs->next; + } + } return status; }
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