From: Nick Hengeveld Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:56:48 GMT Subject: Re: maybe breakage with latest git-pull and http protocol Message-ID: <20051015215648.GC5509@reactrix.com> In-Reply-To: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:41:35PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > BTW, I do not think this is related to git.git repository > > problem, but I wonder why we do not do fetch_object() against > > each altbase in http-fetch.c::fetch(); nobody said you cannot > > borrow unpacked object from your neighbour. > > I believe the code is doing that, but elsewhere. Er, never mind what I said in my previous message. Daniel is correct, process_curl_messages() will try the next altbase if a request 404s. -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.