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-rw-r--r--transport-helper.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
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];