Comment 4 for bug 1999177

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1999177] Re: prepare-upload pushes unnecessarily when sponsoring

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 08:28:10AM -0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> > The repository is huge and pushing a copy to my own namespace just for
> sponsoring is dire.

> Did you try it? I'm under the impression that it should be quick due to
> being a hardlink based clone on the Launchpad end.

I did and it was spending a long time trying to push.

> The plan in the bug description is:
>
> > prepare-upload could do this by fetching/updating the remote ref and
> checking that the HEAD commit is reachable from it.

> Would that have been acceptable to you in this use case?

Yes.