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List:       git
Subject:    Re: cannot handle more than 29 refs
From:       Jon Nelson <jnelson-git () jamponi ! net>
Date:       2005-12-27 20:49:34
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.63.0512271448130.6812 () gheavc ! wnzcbav ! cig
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Jon Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > I get this message whenever I use --tags with git-pull with certain 
> > repositories.
> 
> You shouldn't "pull" tags. You should just "fetch" them.
> 
> The error message comes from the fact that the pull is a "fetch + merge", 
> and the merge logic tries to figure out what the common parent is with 
> "git-show-branch". And the common parent finding is limited to 29 commits.
> 
> (Which is a very reasonable limit: the normal case is 2, and doing an 
> octopus-merge with more than four or five parents is already insane. Much 
> less 30 parents).

^^^ Aha! I think I understand what's going on here - and you are right, 
I *don't* want to merge from all of those tags, I just want the content, 
so fetch is what I should be doing.  Thanks!

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Jon Nelson <jnelson-git@jamponi.net>
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