Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
[uploadPack]
hiderefs = refs/changes
Would you want to do the same thing on receive-pack? It could benefit
from the same reduction in network cost (although it tends to be invoked
less frequently than upload-pack).
Do *I* want to do? Not when there already is a patch exists; I'd
rather take existing and tested patch ;-)
As I said, I view this primarily as solving the cluttering issue.
The use of hiderefs to hide these refs that point at objects I do
not consider belong to my repository from the pushers equally makes
sense as such, I think.