Re: should git download missing objects?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 14, 2006, 20:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20061114200827.GI7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vac2v6qru.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:22:13PM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > ... Junio, what's its life
> > expectancy? I guess this usage scenario is something to take into
> > account when thinking about removing it, I know that I wanted to get rid
> > of it in the past but now my opinion is changing.
> 
> It uses the same commit walker semantics and mechanism so I do
> not think it is too much burden to carry it, but I'd rather have
> something that works over git native protocol if we really care
> about this.  People without ssh access needs to be able to
> recover over git:// protocol.

Even though I obviously agree with the above, it would be useful to have the flag even though git:// (which is apparently harder to get right than the others) is not supported. After all, most repositories I've seen that are available over git:// are available over HTTP as well.

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