From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:56:40 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2 Message-ID: <20051215085640.GP22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <200512150657.53622.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:57:52AM CET, I got a letter where Alan Chandler said that... > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:10, Petr Baudis wrote: > ... > > Also, Cogito is now very ineffective when cloning big-packed > > repositories over the git protocol or over ssh, since git-fetch-pack > > unpacks the objects on the local side, which bogs things down a lot and > > makes the repository grow into enormous proportions - I'm not yet sure > > if I will backport the fix to 0.16 since I want to be maximally careful > > not to gravely break anything again and keep 0.16 as stable as possible. > > (Hm. Call this "the Debian dilemma". ;-) > > Note sure what your Debian dilemma is. Well, I meant this in a general sense - in the stable Debian branch, there's also this dilemma about how grave bugfixes to still merge, without risking another bug induced by those. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.