Re: efficient cloning

Dear diary, on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:54:03AM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] said that...

 * A new flag --use-separate-remote stops contaminating local
   branch namespace by upstream branch names.  The upstream
   branch heads are copied in .git/refs/remotes/ instead of
   .git/refs/heads/ and .git/remotes/origin file is set up to
   reflect this as well.  It requires to have fetch/pull update
   to understand .git/refs/remotes by Eric Wong to further
   update the repository cloned this way.

I think this sucks the way it is, because you still have only a single
namespace for remotes (still quite a huge improvement to the current git
situation), but you can have many upstreams. So it would be a quite more
reasonable to have:

	.git/refs/remotes/<remotename>/<headname>

This is also how I would like to do it for cg-clone -a (which I planned
to implement the last weekend... well... ;). Actually, I think I will
stay in .git/refs/heads/ at least for now until git versions with
.git/refs/remotes/ in the refs search path will be released.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.