Re: How to clone-pack the HEAD?

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:21:23AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

And this is the second installment, on top of the previous one.
I am a bit reluctant about this one only because of its size,
but I suspect it may be much easier to use for your purpose.

I'll keep this in the proposed updates branch for now (the other
one goes to master tonight), so if you like this one, please
holler, test out and ack.

Well, I like this one, but you don't need to put this to master just for
me, I'm perfectly fine with the git-clone-pack fix - both commands are
now equally simple for me to use in Cogito. (And both seem to work fine
after some basic testing.)

But you are right that git-clone-pack is basically made obsolete by this
patch, and I tend to like that fact - that's why I have slight
preference to this patch anyway, despite its size (and it's mostly
common code being moved around anyway). It's probably too late to remove
git-clone-pack altogether, but you might at least deprecate it and print
a warning when it's being ran (or at least please print a warning when
it's being ran in a repository which is already populated, which is very
likely a driver error, and I've actually made it just a minute ago ;).

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