Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> But I wonder if fetching and pushing are different in that respect. You
> are (usually) fetching from a public publishing point, and it is assumed
> that whatever is there is useful for sharing. The only reason to limit
> it is to save time transferring objects the user does not want.

There are those who have to emulate "git fetch" with a reverse "git
push" (or vice versa) due to network connection limitations, so I do
not think hardcoding such a policy decision in the direction is
necessarily a good idea.

> ... But I also don't want to introduce a feature
> that causes people to accidentally publish cruft. It may not be a
> problem in practice; I'm just thinking out loud at this point.

Likewise.
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