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| -rw-r--r-- | transport-helper.c | 15 |
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diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c index 61c928f6cd..cfe0988490 100644 --- a/transport-helper.c +++ b/transport-helper.c @@ -444,6 +444,21 @@ static int fetch_with_import(struct transport *transport, free(fastimport.argv); fastimport.argv = NULL; + /* + * The fast-import stream of a remote helper that advertises + * the "refspec" capability writes to the refs named after the + * right hand side of the first refspec matching each ref we + * were fetching. + * + * (If no "refspec" capability was specified, for historical + * reasons we default to *:*.) + * + * Store the result in to_fetch[i].old_sha1. Callers such + * as "git fetch" can use the value to write feedback to the + * terminal, populate FETCH_HEAD, and determine what new value + * should be written to peer_ref if the update is a + * fast-forward or this is a forced update. + */ for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++) { char *private; posn = to_fetch[i]; |