Re: shallow clone not very shallow due to tags

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Of course a placeholder ref cannot be used as a starting point to
checkout something, can it? It has no commit object available. So if
you did decide to checkout a placeholder, you would need to first
fetch that placeholder. So why not use git ls-remote to list the
remotely available branches?

Ah.. ls-remote is the answer. Thanks, placeholders are gone (for me).
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Duy