Re: [PATCH] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own

On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

How does this interact with the "pretend to have fetched back
immediately" supported by modern git-push?

That continues to fire, but it updates the local tracking ref to point  
to the SHA1 that was pushed, which isn't the actual remote ref. So you  
have to do a real fetch to get the local tracking ref pointed to the  
right place. In other words, that feature doesn't do any good in this  
context, but it doesn't really hurt anything either.

It would of course be better if git-push could notice that it needs to  
do an actual fetch. I think it'd be sufficient to transmit the final  
remote ref SHA1 back to git-push, and if it doesn't match what was  
pushed, that's a sign that a fetch is needed. But that change wouldn't  
be mutually exclusive with this patch, I believe.

-Steve