From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:41:33 GMT
Subject: Re: BEWARE: mkdelta is broken
Message-ID: <20050527094133.GR24351@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505262125050.16151@localhost.localdomain>

Hello,

> 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