On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:49:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
quoted text
> Maybe we have a misunderstanding about what "follow a link" means and
> when it is done.
> During most normal git operation, the origin links are just read, but
> not followed.
> The only commands that I expect to follow them are log --graph, gitk, fsck
> and blame.  I may have missed some corner use-cases, but this should
> cover most of it; i.e. most of git ignores them or just makes note of
> the hashvalues provided.

Oh, I'm sorry. By

	- During fetch/push/pull the full commit including the origin fields is
	  transmitted, however, the objects the origin links are referring to
	  are not (unless they are being transmitted because of other reasons).

I have understood that you fetch the origin target but not commits
referred from it, but instead you meant that you do not follow the
origin link at all.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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