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[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:22:39PM -0700, Mark Mikofski wrote:
> > The fetch function returns them.
> Is there a way to get them without calling fetch?
> What if I have no network connection, so I can't
> connect to the remote? The only thing I can think
> of is to write them to a file when I clone the repo
> the first time.

Right, you would want to store the refs in your local repository as
refs/remotes/REMOTENAME/ref.

Cheers,

Jelmer


> import csv

> with open('dulwich_refs', 'wb') as file:
>     writer = csv.writer(file, delimeter=' ')
>         for key, value in refs.items():
>             writer.writerow([key, value])

> then if I need them later I will have the shas.

> 1. is there a better way?
> 2. this file is modelled after packed_refs file. Is this
> a good format? It seems arbitrary, since I just made
> it up. There is probably a more standard git format,
> like packed_refs, that would be more meaningful, and
> what people expect.

> Thanks again!
> Mark

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