From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:08:27 GMT Subject: Re: should git download missing objects? 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: > Petr Baudis 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i