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Re: BEWARE: mkdelta is broken

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TGThomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date
May 27, 2005, 09:41 UTC
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<20050527094133.GR24351@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Hello,
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> The current delta loop detection logic is broken.  So if you have 
> multiple merged branches or you have a changeset that revert things then 
> you might end up with a delta loop and fsck-cache will effectively 
> complain about unresolved deltas and assorted dangling/broken object 
> links.

I wanted to give you heads-up, but I forgot it. But I think noone is using it at the moment otherwise they had complained in the first place.

However ... I took linux-2.6 repository. Ran git-deltafy-script && git-deltafy-script -d 0 and it segfaulted on me. Same for my mutt-cvs import.

	Thomas
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