On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:00:04AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> > 
> > > It takes loooong time, unfortunately - scp -r takes its time itself on
> > > many small files, and then we have to make a separate call to
> > > git-ssh-fetch for each tag. Isn't that braindamaged... :/
> > 
> > I think you could run git-peek-remote to find all the refs and
> > then run git-fetch-pack to slurp all the tags (and heads for
> > that matter) at once.  Is there a particular reason you would
> > prefer the commit walker?
> 
> Actually, probably not, except consistency with rsync and http handling
> - but that's obviously not too good reason. I did it this way since I'm
> going to be a bit busy again from now on.

It wouldn't actually be very hard to rewrite git-*-fetch programs to fetch 
with a bunch of starting points. The main reason I haven't is actually 
that I don't have any ideas for a way to extend the command line argument 
format to include it.

	-Daniel
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