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Re: [PATCH] cg-fetch: retrieve missing commits with a smarter optimization

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Oct 21, 2005, 12:47 UTC
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<20051021124711.GG30889@pasky.or.cz>
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<11298726913836-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Could you please resend your patches signed off? Thanks.

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:31:31AM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> told me that...

>  + will check tagrefs, trying to ensure it actually has the relevant
>    commits. If the commits are missing, it'll go out and fetch them.

I'd prefer the approach to throw away the tag. Otherwise we get into problems when we want to grab only a single branch from multi-branch repository.

>  + if the tagref points to a blob and we have it, it'll skip it

The problem is that the ^{blob} syntax is not in 0.98, so this would make Cogito depend on a yet unreleased GIT version, which is troublesome.

So I guess this patch will end up in my post-0.99/1.0 queue for now. But by that time, this part of cg-fetch will be probably already totally rewritten. ;-)

> This isn't a complete solution for cg-fetch -- git-fetch is actually
> much smarter now, and cg-fetch should perhaps be a thin wrapper
> around it, dropping all the duplicate code.

I'm still thinking about it. I will certainly try to at least somehow reuse git-fetch's remote parser, if not anything else - reimplementing that would be just stupid.

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  1. cg-fetch: retrieve missing commits with a smarter optimizationMartin Langhoff, Oct 21, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisOct 21, 2005

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