Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

[Jeff Garzik]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:39:50AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Any chance we could get 'git fetch --heads' ?
> >
> > FWIW, I regularly blow away and create new heads, so the above is rather 
> > long for people who use my repos.  A lot of them use rsync because when 
> > you're tracking a repo with ever-changing branches, 'git pull' doesn't 
> > really approximate "make local X look like remote X".
>
>
> Speaking of which...  Shouldn't git clone bring in .git/HEAD for rsync:// URLs?
> As it is, we end up with HEAD pointing to refs/master, which might simply
> not be there.  For git:// we get .git/HEAD same as in remote repository,
> so behaviour for rsync:// probably should be the same...
>
> Looks like a missing rsync in git-clone, around
>         rsync://*)
>                 rsync $quiet -av --ignore-existing  \
>                         --exclude info "$repo/objects/" "$GIT_DIR/objects/" &&
>                 rsync $quiet -av --ignore-existing  \
>                         --exclude info "$repo/refs/" "$GIT_DIR/refs/" || exit
>
> Comments?

AFAICS 'git clone $rsync_url' pulls down the heads and tags just fine... 
 I just tried it again to be certain.  refs/heads and refs/tags is 
fully populated, and HEAD links to refs/master as it should.

	Jeff



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