On Friday 15 February 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
quoted text
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Johan Herland wrote:
> 
> > when git-clone is cloning repos with thousands of refs, it makes sense 
> > to create a packed-refs file directly in the clone, instead of having to 
> > run "git pack-refs" (or "git gc") afterwards to (re)pack the refs.
> 
> Sure, and it's easy, too.  The format of the packed-refs file is exactly 
> the same as the output of "git ls-remote <origin>".

As I said in my first email: similar, but not identical.

Contrast:

$ git ls-remote origin
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd        HEAD
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd        refs/heads/another_branch
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd        refs/heads/master
d6f7eacba9f07aa382a113e129866266c8d60642        refs/tags/complex_tag
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd        refs/tags/complex_tag^{}
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd        refs/tags/simple_tag
$ cat .git/packed-refs
# pack-refs with: peeled
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd refs/heads/master
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd refs/remotes/origin/another_branch
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd refs/remotes/origin/master
d6f7eacba9f07aa382a113e129866266c8d60642 refs/tags/complex_tag
^ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd
ec09f49905e94f3bbf04bf3521f1fc59b1345cbd refs/tags/simple_tag
$


...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net
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