Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

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I wonder if we can have a backdoor to avoid any object transfer
in such a case to begin with...

Yea, symlink to the corresponding refs directory of the alternate
ODB.  Then the refs will be visible.  ;-)

I was thinking about going the other way.  When git-fetch is
asked to fetch over a local transport, it could check if the
source is one of its alternate object stores.