Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overwritten remote ref on with fast-import.

From: Florian Achleitner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:52:38 +0200

On Tuesday 17 July 2012 08:48:20 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Florian Achleitner wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2012 22:27:25 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> Hm, that still doesn't look right.  The RHS of the refspec is supposed to
> >> be a _private_ namespace for the remote helper, and refs/remotes/ is
> >> not private.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > remote-svn now uses get_fetch_map to retrieve the local refs. So it
> > respects the fetch refspec in the config.
> 
> No no no no no.  That's transport-helper's job.
> 
> The RHS of the remote helper's refspec really is supposed to be
> _private_.  Improvements to the documentation to clarify this would be
> welcome.

So we want the transport-helper to touch only private refs, i.e. some subdir 
of refs/, ok.
On the other hand I thought we expect git-fetch to update the RHS of the 
passed refspec (or the default one ). How?

Btw, whats FETCH_HEAD for?

> Thanks,
> Jonathan

Thanks,
Florian