From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:47:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] for_each_ref() returning heads in wrong order
Message-ID: <20060923164759.GP8259@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060923160712.5890.73139.stgit@machine.or.cz>

Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 06:36:21PM CEST, I got a letter
where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...
> Using the #next branch I've now hit a problem with git-fetch-pack
> master choosing refs/bases/master (I geuss created by StGIT) instead
> of refs/heads/master. The old upload-pack returned the refs in the order
> heads-tags-everything_else but the new one just goes for whatever order
> readdir() returns them in (modulo merging with packed refs). I actually
> can't see the difference that caused this right now, though.

Portion of this is obsolete, I've since noticed what the difference
actually is - the _old_ one processed the directory unsorted and the new
one actually keeps it sorted in add_ref().

Alternate approach would be just to modify add_ref() sort order to take
heads and tags into account (but you still need to keep the cmp hack for
merging packed/loose refs). Should be pretty easy to do, but I
personally need to proceed with my TODO list for now since I've already
a working workaround.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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