Re: git clone --reference not working

On 11/17/2011 01:54 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Andrea Arcangeli [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

latest git.git won't clone linux upstream with --reference. Those
v*^{} tags breaks it. What's that stuff anyway, looks totally ugly
(two commits with same data contents and header) bah.

They point at commits they tag, and are essential for auto-following. They
have been there forever in ls-remote output and they are not the real
problem.

A recent topic that was merged at 9bd5000 tightened the refname checking
code without thinking and started to needlessly barf upon seeing them. I
think we have discussed about the issue on the list, but I do not think
there were fixes yet.

Thanks for reminding.

Michael, how does this look?

-- >8 --
Subject: refs: loosen over-strict "format" check
[...]

I reviewed the patch (and ran the test suite here for good measure).
Looks good.

From SubmittingPatches it looks like I should authorize

Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <redacted>

Is there a standard way to do so?

Michael

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