Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: avoid local fetching from alternate (again)

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 03:04:46 -0500

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Back in e3c6f240fd9c5bdeb33f2d47adc859f37935e2df Junio taught
> > git-fetch to avoid copying objects when we are fetching from
> > a repository that is already registered as an alternate object
> > database.  In such a case there is no reason to copy any objects
> > as we can already obtain them through the alternate.
> 
> The regression the patch fixes should be testable with a
> script.  Please have a new test for it.

Hmmph.  t5502-quickfetch should have covered this.  It obviously
wasn't testing the right thing here.  I'll figure out why and post
a patch to fix t5502.

-- 
Shawn.